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

Serbia

Rigged tenders worth $ 18 billion?

Republic Commission for the Protection of Rights in Public Procurement in just six months canceled tenders worth about 18 billion!

Serbia

Conference "Towards Efficient Public Procurement in the Western Balkans" was held

The conference was held on 28th of November in Belgrade, at Hotel Metropol Palace

Serbia

The Framework agreement

The Framework Agreement represents a novelty in our public procurement system; it was unknown in the previous system of legislation and has been taken over from EU regulations (Directive 2004/18).

Serbia

Serbia has obtained 25 public procurement trainers

On March 21, Serbia obtained the first 25 local public procurement trainers who will train state officials throughout the country.

Serbia

The Strategy of the Fight against Corruption: medical doctors, politicians, public procurements under the magnifying glass

More stringent control of public procurements, the property of politicians and parties, the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and medical doctors, transparent media financing – are the basic goals of the Draft National Strategy for the Fight against Corruption

Serbia

State Audit Institution: 47 Billion Spent in Suspicious Public Procurements

In 2011 alone violations of public procurements procedures were made by 122 state-owned companies and state bodies, the value of which totals almost 50 billion dinars, the State Auditor has said.