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.

Money well spent?

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

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).

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.

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.

 
 

Focus Highlights

CIN PUBLISHED A DATABASE ABOUT PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Datum: Apr 16, 2015

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

04.03.2015.

Source: www.cin.ba

 

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.

The database features records of 39,178 contracts concluded among 828 government institutions and public companies with 5,230 companies. The value of the contracts is at least 6.2 billion KM.

Reporters found among the winners of public contracts firms owned or co-owned by politicians. Their firms were awarded 295 contracts worth 103.8 million KM for procurement of cars, fuel, medicine, hotel accommodation, construction and forestry work. The database is available at CIN’s page www.cin.ba/javnenabavke. It is free of charge and mobile app compatible.