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

Macedonia

Double price for same products in public tenders

Planned e-auctions that are later not implemented result in the highest prices, according to the latest Index of Rationality, issued by the Center for Civil Communications.

Macedonia

Psychological tests – lucrative business for close people

The owner of the company that won the tender for psychological tests for teachers and professors is the manager of an NGO, along with a psychologist who is employed at the Ministry of Education and Science, reveals research by BIRN

Macedonia

Only municipalities will spend more than 700,000 euros for New Year decorations


Over 700,000 euros for New Year's decoration or 34,000 euros more compared to last year will be spent by municipalities.

Macedonia

The government abandoned the “Louis XV”

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.

Macedonia

Microbiological tests stuck

Lengthy tender procedures and requests from the Public Procurement Council, left the Institute of Microbiology without three tests.

Macedonia

Public procurement: the lowest price does not guarantee the quality?

The lowest price which is the key criterion for the bidding companies to win the tender does not guarantees the quality of the tenders

Macedonia

Kapital investigates: From whom the state buys computers and software?

The state institutions spent alomost 5 million euro in the last ten months for procurement of IT equipment for modernization of the institutions

Macedonia

Public procurement in the WB region: different laws, same problems

Results of the comparative analysis of the implementation of public procurement in four countries in the region - Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro were discussed in Skopje on a conference with more than 80 representatives of key stakeholders – contracting authorities, business community, academia and the NGOs

Macedonia

Changes in the Public Procurement Law leaves clinics without medicines and reagents

Patients who need to do blood tests for bacterial infections are sent home from the laboratory of the Institute of microbiology

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