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

The government abandoned the “Louis XV”

Date: May 24, 2016

Macedonia

24.01.2016

 

Source: www.utrinski.mk

 

Once revealed in the public that the Government will buy new furniture in the Rococo style of Louis XV and that it will spend 52,000 euros on that, the Office for General Affairs decided to cancel the procurement procedure, being ordered by the government. The idea for the purchase of sixty pieces of new furniture, which was stated in the specification of the tender notice published by the Office of General Affairs, was a “surprise” for the government. But after that has caused major negative reaction in public, the Government announced that there is no need for such furniture.

 

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