Third quarterly report on monitoring the implementation of public procurement 2013
Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so-called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidding company that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Namely, there is an unwritten rule whereby the bidding companies indicate higher prices for their products, services or work performance in expectation of having these prices reduced during the downward bidding (e-auction). Although planned, e-auctions were not organized in half of tender procedures from the monitoring sample.