Policy brief: Improving legal protection in public procurement

Analysis of state-of-affairs in public procurements imposed the need to reexamine efficiency of legal protection in Macedonia, under circumstances when the number of appeals is continuously declining despite the galloping growth of tender procedures announced and implemented. Furthermore, the efficiency of the legal protection system becomes more important in the light of the fact that public procurements in the country account for 12% of the Gross Domestic Product. On annual level, state institutions spend more than 900 million EUR on procurement of goods, services and works, notably by means of public procurement procedures, which account for as high as 35% of all central budget funds. This fact is indicative of the importance of public procurements not only in terms of normal functioning of the state, but also in terms of the overall economic activity.