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

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“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

NO MINISTER BUT THERE IS A NEW CAR: Ministry of Transport and Communications renews car park

Date: May 24, 2016

Bosnia and Herzegovina

28.03.2016.

Source: www.slobodna-bosna.ba

 

Although four months’ work without minister, for current managerial staff of the BiH Ministry of Transport and Communications there are no obstacle to the maximum benefit from state institutions and the civil service.

Thus they were recently launched and almost completed the procedure of procurement of new limousine (apparently the new VW Passat), which will taxpayers in BiH cost 50,000 KM.

Why now they make such a decisions, is there a need to procure a new limousine, for whom it is intended and whether there is economic justification for these purchases, are all issues that are addressed by the journalists of Nezavisne novine, but the Ministry did not get an answers because the Sasa Dalipagić (Deputy Minister) and Igor Pejic (Secretary of the Ministry) were absent because of the holidays.

Nezavisne novine also wrote that they could not get an answer to the question whether the procurement is legal, because the ministry does not have the Minister as the most responsible person who signed and approves all of this procurement.

However, judging by the price, the vehicle is procured specifically for the needs of the Deputy Minister, and it is possible to use also by the Secretary of the Ministry.