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.

 
 

North Macedonia

Center for Civil Communications – Skopje

Address: Bul. Koco Racin 26-1/2, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia

Tel: +389 2 3213 513

Fax: +389 2 3213 513

Web: www.ccc.org.mk  

E-mail: center@ccc.org.mk 

Established in 2005, the Center for Civil Communications focuses its activities on good governance, nation-wide and locally. CCC’s goal is to develop and improve the communication among all social factors in the Republic of Macedonia regarding processes of wider social importance, as well as to monitor, analyse, and enhance the social, political, and economic processes in the country, mainly in the area of anti-corruption, local governance and economic development. CCC is the only CSO in Macedonia that monitors closely the process of public procurements in the country since 2008, issuing quarterly based reports with the key findings and recommendations for both legal changes and changes in the implementation of the Public Procurement Law. In 2011, CCC introduced an instrument to assess effectiveness of public spending – the so-called Index of Rationality comparing prices by which different state institutions buy the very same products, services and works. In addition, CCC holds trainings in anti-corruption and public spending monitoring for other CSOs and journalists on nation-wide and local level, and CCC staff is part of a number of expert teams involved in designing anti-corruption and reform strategies and policies in the country.

Besides its staff of seven people, several external experts work for CCC on a regular basis (public procurement, legislation, and anticorruption). During it’s almost eight year operation CCC has implemented over 15 projects, proposing hundreds of recommendations for taking measures for enhancing the areas in which it is operating.