The analysis of the public procurement process in the Republic of Macedonia was performed based on the monitoring of randomly selected sample of public procurement procedures (40 of each quarter). Monitoring activities start with the publication of calls for bids in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia”, followed by attendance on public opening of bids and data collection on the procedure course, and use of in-depth interviews and structured questionnaires submitted to the rconomic operators, as well as data obtained from contracting authorities by means of Freedom of Information (FOI) applications.
The present analysis was performed based on monitoring of selected sample of 40 public procurement procedures implemented by central level contracting authorities, whose public opening of bids took place in the period October – December 2011.