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

Corruption in BiH – Country where public procurements are secret

Date: May 17, 2013

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

02.04.2013.

Source: Radio Free Europe (www.rferl.org)

 

JP Elektroprivreda BiH (Public Enterprise Electricity Utility of Bosni and Herzegovina) and Medical clinical centers often violate public procurement procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the top of the list of the ten biggest offenders of Public Procurement Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina are:

 BH Telecom, Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Railways in Republic of Srpska. In the last year, through the contracting of public procurement, it’s been more than two billion Euros, and two-thirds of the amount has been agreed far from the public eye.