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).

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Focus

Cash-in-hand for tender or business deal

Date: Sep 03, 2013

Macedonia

 

02.07.2013.

Source : http://www.utrinski.com.mk

 

Corruption has been flourishing in education, construction, trade, and agriculture. Everyone bribes in different way.


Most of the companies in Macedonia are getting the tenders for new business through connections, direct bribery with money-back, by offering quit pro quo and privileges and by disqualification of the opponent. Brabe is common in education, construction, agriculture...

As much as 72.5% of private sector employees say that companies pay bribes to secure business through public tender. These are the results of the latest research of the agency “Rating” done in cooperation with the OSCE Mission in Skopje and the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption. In the telephone survey conducted between May 15-19, 2013 participated 800 private sector employees.