– 46% of companies believe that corruption is present in public procurement, and 18% reported they have personally faced corruption in tenders.
– 54% of companies acknowledge that there is bid rigging.
– 93% of companies believe that e-auctions result in attainment of unrealistic prices and undermine the quality.
– For 63% of companies, the ‘lowest price’ used as selection criterion is the most frequent problem they face in public procurement.
– Companies submitted 751 appeals before the State Commission for Public Procurement Complaints in 2022, which is a decrease of 34% compared to the previous year.
– Through the non-transparent procedure of negotiation without prior tender notice, contracts worth 31 million EUR were awarded, which is a decrease of 30% compared to the previous year.
– 31% of public procurement procedures were annulled.
– 90% of the monitored tenders were conducted later than the deadline foreseen in the public procurement plans.
– The average number of bids per tender in 2022 accounts for 3, which indicates a decrease in competition compared to 2021.
For more information, please contact the Center for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at center@ccc.org.mk.
The report was prepared as part of the project “Monitoring of public procurements”, implemented by the Center for Civil Communications and financially supported by the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia.