Focus Highlights
Focus Highlights
REGIONAL DEBATE ON CRITICAL CHALLENGES IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES
70 representatives of all relevant stakeholders, including government officials, civil society organizations, international partners, and the media gathered together on 25 September 2024 at Balkan Tender Watch’s annual regional debate on state of affairs in public procurement in the Western Balkan countries.
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).
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