Second Semiannual Report on Monitoring the Implementation of Public Procurement 2015
In the period November 2008 – June 2014, the monitoring activities were implemented on a quarterly monitoring sample comprised of randomly selected public procurement procedures; however, starting from the second half of 2014 the monitoring sample is defined on semi-annual level and includes random selection of 60 public procurement procedures. Monitoring activities start with the publication of procurement notices in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” and in the Electronic Public Procurement System, followed by attendance at public opening of bids and data collection on 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. Some monitoring parameters (number, share and structure of annulled tender procedures, value of signed contracts per particular type of procedure and the like) are now analysed by processing all data submitted to EPPS.