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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

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.

Macedonia

Public Procurement Bureau: It narrows the space for manipulation of the tenders

The tender notices and documentations must pass the filter of the Council on Public Procurement.

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!

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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Representatives of civil society – to the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina: We don’t want cosmetics in public procurement

Civil society organizations and members of the Association of Employers of BiH sent the open letter to the deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly which stand out, said the director of the Anti-Corruption Network Account Eldin Karic, that such amendments are the minimum for improving the anti-corruption mechanism in the New Public Procurement Law, which should reduce the high level of corruption in the procurement process.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Open Letter to the Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of B&H on the draft Law on Public Procurement

Transparency International BiH, Open Society Fund BiH, the Association of Employers of BiH, Association of Citizens “Tender” and Anti-Corruption Network of Civil Society Representatives ACCOUNT have sent an open letter to all members of Parliamentary Assembly of BiH on the occasion of the new draft Law on Public Procurement.