REGIONAL DEBATE ON CRITICAL CHALLENGES IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES

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Focus

Every fourth tender annulled

Date: May 14, 2013

Macedonia

 

19.04.2013.

Author : Center for Civil Communications

 

The percentage of annulments in 2012 is the highest in the past four years, reaching 24.2% of all of tender notices. Low number of received bids is the main reason.

 

Annulled were 2,833 out of all 11,726 notices for public procurements in 2012. The problem of frequent annulment of tenders was stressed in the last European Commission’s country progress report in 2012.  

 

The trend of annulment of procedures 

Year

Number of notices published

Number of decisions for annulment of procedures 

Share of annulled procedures

2009 

6,869

1,372

19.97% 

2010 

7,091

1,554

21.92% 

2011 

7,800

1,656

21.23% 

2012

11,726

2,833

24.16%

 

The analyses of the Center for Civil Communications, an NGO that regularly monitors the implementation of the public procurement procedures in Macedonia, shows that tenders have been annulled mostly because no bid is received or no acceptable (criteria for assessing the ability of bidders have not been met) or appropriate bid (amount of the bid is higher than the one estimated by the contracting authority) is received on tender notices.

It is important that larger tenders which are conducted through so-called open procedure are more frequently annulled than the smaller ones, conducted through a simplified procedure of collecting offers.

 

Given the rising trend of annulment of public procurement procedures, CCC suggests sanctions for contracting authorities with big number of annulled procedures to be introduced and to limit and to define more precisely the provisions for annulment of the tenders provided in the Law on Public Procurement.