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

Representatives of civil society – to the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina: We don’t want cosmetics in public procurement

Date: Apr 02, 2014

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

13.03.2014.

Source: http://www.oslobodjenje.ba

 

Civil society organizations and members of the Association of Employers of BiH sent the open letter to the deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly which stand out, said the director of the Anti-Corruption Network Account Eldin Karic, that such amendments are the minimum for improving the anti-corruption mechanism in the New Public Procurement Law, which should reduce the high level of corruption in the procurement process.

Director of the Association of Employers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Remzo Bakšić pointed out that the civil sector and employers for the first time obtained the public debate on this Law.

- If we are 10 years waiting for a new law that will protect the public interest, then it is better to wait more for the right solutions, considered Mervan Miraščija from the Open Society Fund BiH, pointing out that the Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative - Sigma is talking about the necessity of activating question of concession in new Public procurement Law ‘’and in BiH this question is not open’’.

 

Read more here…

http://www.oslobodjenje.ba/vijesti/bih/predstavnici-civilnog-drustva--poslanicima-psbih-necemo-kozmetiku-u-javnim-nabavkama