Ranking of institutions according to their anticorruption performance in public procurement
In the Republic of North Macedonia, public procurements account for 24% of the state budget and 8% of the gross domestic product. Public procurements, whose annual value exceeds 1 billion EUR, are particularly susceptible to corruption, hence, additional efforts at systemic and institutional level are needed to narrow opportunities for corruption in this sphere.
At systemic level, anticorruption efforts need to be taken by all competent institutions and state bodies responsible for detecting and sanctioning corruption, starting with the Bureau of Public Procurement and the State Commission on Public Procurement Appeals, through the Commission for Protection of Competition and the State Audit Office, and ending with the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption and the judiciary.
At institutional level, anticorruption efforts require a measurable and sustainable method to assess ability of individual institutions to prevent corruption in public procurement. Notably, it is the institutions that hold primary responsibility for lawful implementation of tender procedures and for effective and efficient public spending under public procurement procedures.