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.

 
 

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia’s Elites Get the Cars They Desire


Officials in Bosnia have found a neat way to get round public procurement laws and get the exact official limos they want.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

More Than 1 Billion KM Spent on Public Procurement Last Year

During last year, government agencies and public institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) concluded 11,864 contracts worth at least 1.1 billion KM. CIN has created a database that includes records on all public procurement carried out between the beginning of 2011 and the end of 2015.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Agreement Transparency in Public Procurement

Agreement Transparency in Public Procurement

Bosnia and Herzegovina

BiH Law on Public Procurement: Amendments saving millions gather dust

BiH Law on Public Procurement: Amendments saving millions KM gather dust

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

Recently they have started and almost finished the procedure of procurement of the new limousine, apparently VW Passat, which will taxpayers in BiH cost 50,000 KM

Bosnia and Herzegovina

CIN PUBLISHED A DATABASE ABOUT PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

The Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo (CIN) has created a unique online database about public procurement to give citizens insight into public spending and to show with whom government institutions and public companies are doing business when it comes to buying goods or services or doing public work

Bosnia and Herzegovina

DISCUSSION ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: The new law increased corruption!

Civil society organizations, including ACCOUNT, Transparency International B-H, Association "Tender" Banja Luka, Open Society Fund Bosnia and Herzegovina and Association of Employers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, seeking the amendments to the existing PPL B-H and introduction of Public Procurement Portal, which will published all ads on public procurement, tender documentation, list of contracting authority and all other relevant information for the public procurement process in Bosnia an

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Findings: There is a need for refining the Law on Public Procurement

In Banja Luka were presented the results of a regional research Project ‘’Towards Efficient Public Procurement Mechanisms in the EU (potential) Candidate Countries’’

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Draft Law on Amendments to the new Bosnia and Hercegovina Law on Public Procurement is adopted

The House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in urgent procedure adopted the Draft Law on Amendments to the new Public Procurement Law, which was adopted less than a month earlier.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Believe your own eyes: These are parliamentarians who voted for corruption

With 20 votes for, 17 votes against and four restrained, Parliament passed a Law on Public Procurement with 25 amendments previously adopted by the Commission for Budget and Finance.

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