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

Average late payment of public tenders is 8 months

Date: May 26, 2016

Macedonia

06.05.2016.

Source: www.vest.mk

 

Most frequent problems companies face in public procurement are the lowest price as the single criterion for awarding public contracts and late payment for contract performance. Average period of waiting for collection of receivables for contract performance amounts to 8 months, according to the research on 254 companies done by CCC for the period July-December 2015.

79% of surveyed companies believe that corruption is present in public procurement, as follows: 37% of them indicated that corruption is often present, 10% indicated it is always present, while 32% of surveyed companies indicated that corruption is rarely present in public procurement. Only 21% of companies indicated that corruption is never present in public procurement.

 

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