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

The number of appeals in public procurement reduced twice in four years

Date: May 14, 2013

Macedonia

 

29.03.2013.

Source : Капитал

 

The State Appeals Commission for Public Procurement has received 585 complaints in 2012, compared to 1.044 complaints in 2009. While the State Commission thinks that the reduced number of appeals is due to the companies’ better training and education, the experts point to the distrust of companies in the Commission due to the large number of refused and dismissed appeals, as well as to the high costs of the appeal procedure.