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

Albania

Abuse of tenders, SPAK takes the former mayor of Patos and 3 other officials to trial

The Special Prosecutor's Office against Corruption and Organized Crime completed the investigations and sent to the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime the request for sending the defendants to trial:

Albania

BIRN: The head of ARRSH invested 2.2 million euros from tenders in his company's real estate

The Special Prosecutor's Office against Corruption and Organized Crime, SPAK, announced on Thursday, March 14, the arrest of the General Director of the Austrian Road Authority, ARRSH, Evis Berberi, on charges of "Passive Corruption..." and "Money Laundering...", carried out in collaboration .

Albania

BIRN analysis: What is the rate of corruption in Albania?

Tenders for works supervision are considered small tenders. They cost a few thousand euros and are used to contract a company that supervises the works undertaken by another company.