Focus Highlights

Macedonia

Money well spent?

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

Macedonia

Public procurements or only imitation?

“Monitoring of the public procurements: corruption risks, identified from the civil society organizations” organized by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCMS) and the Center for Civil Communications (CCC).

Macedonia

Monuments’ polishing will clean up 730,000 euro for two years

The construction company "Beton" will maintain fountains and monuments in the next 24 months.

EU

Public procurement could be next TTIP deal breaker

As EU-US negotiators prepare for a new round of transatlantic trade talks in New York next week, officials fear TTIP might run into a new brick wall: Public procurement.

Macedonia

Psychological tests – lucrative business for close people

The owner of the company that won the tender for psychological tests for teachers and professors is the manager of an NGO, along with a psychologist who is employed at the Ministry of Education and Science, reveals research by BIRN

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Agreement Transparency in Public Procurement

Agreement Transparency in Public Procurement

Bosnia and Herzegovina

CIN PUBLISHED A DATABASE ABOUT PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

The Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo (CIN) has created a unique online database about public procurement to give citizens insight into public spending and to show with whom government institutions and public companies are doing business when it comes to buying goods or services or doing public work

Macedonia

Public procurement: the lowest price does not guarantee the quality?

The lowest price which is the key criterion for the bidding companies to win the tender does not guarantees the quality of the tenders

Serbia

Rigged tenders worth $ 18 billion?

Republic Commission for the Protection of Rights in Public Procurement in just six months canceled tenders worth about 18 billion!

Montenegro

Drug tender annuled

State Commission for the Control of Public Procurement Procedures annulled part of the tender for the purchase of medical equipment, worth 2.9 million euros, which was signed by ‘Montefarm’ in mid-July.

EU

Working Meeting with NGO Representatives

On September 19th, 2013 was a meeting of Public Procurement Office management and NGO representatives from Balkan countries (Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro).