Fourth Quarterly Report on Monitoring the Implementation of Public Procurement 2013
Analysis of the public procurement process in the Republic of Macedonia is performed on the basis of monitoring a randomly selected sample of public procurement procedures (40 per quarter). Monitoring activities start with the publication of calls for bids in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” and in the Electronic Public Procurement System (EPPS), followed by attendance at public opening of bids and data collection on the procedure course, and use in-depth interviews and structured questionnaires submitted to economic operators, as well as data collected from contracting authorities through EPPS and by means of Freedom of Information (FOI) applications.