Some of the key findings are:
The annulment problem is increasingly intensified for the larger tender procedures, that is, so-called open procedures for procurement of goods and service in the amount over EUR 20,000 and for works implementation in the amount over EUR 50,000. According to the monitored sample, such unfavorable trend is mostly due to the adopted decisions to annul the tenders because the estimated value of the procurement is lower than the financial offers by the companies bidders, and therefore, the institutions with their budgets cannot afford to pay them.
Companies are requested evidence for previous public procurement contracts concluded with state institutions in order to participate in tender processes. Continuous extension of the eligibility criteria list needed to prove their eligibility makes the companies’ participation in public procurement procedures even more complicated. A case has been identified within the monitored sample when a company was requested to employ the dismissed waiting staff from a certain health institution as a precondition to be awarded a tender for hospital catering.
Part of the institutions still fail to comply with the rule of accurate definition of the point-ranking manner to evaluate the bids. Instead of the quality of the bids, tender processes mainly evaluate the experience of the companies – bidders.
The non-transparent negotiated procedure without a call announcement in the third quarter of 2012 is applied for the conclusion of 210 contracts with total value of EUR 14 million which is about 90% more than the value of the contracts concluded in the same period of the previous year. In the first nine months of 2012 such contracts amount to approximately EUR 32 million.
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