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

Rigged tenders worth $ 18 billion?

Date: May 08, 2014

Serbia

 

14.04.2014

Source: Alo

 

Republic Commission for the Protection of Rights in Public Procurement in just six months canceled tenders worth about 18 billion!

As "Alo" research shows, ministries, healthcare and educational institutions and public enterprises, because of bad or doubtful written tender, only for the costs of the proceedings have to pay to private companies more than 40 million RSD.

Because of that, citizens of Serbia, in some cases, are unnecessarily left without vital goods and services for months.