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SKOPJE, December 21, 2010 - Center for Civil Communications today announced the seventh quarterly report (.pdf) with the results of monitoring of public procurements at central and local level in the period July-September 2010 where they note the following key findings: Economic operators can not exercise the right to inspect the documentation of the procedures for public procurement they have participated in. This incorrect application of the Law on Public Procurement has increased suspicion of the companies for misuse the public procurement. The trend of reduction of competition in public procurement procedures continues. In only 47.5% of the monitored tenders in this quarter, there where only one or two companies bidding. Annulled are 22.5% of monitored procedures. From 2008 to 2010, the number of annulled procedures has increased for 2.5 times. Part of the contracting authorities do not respect the newly established deadline for taking bid selection. Contracting authorities fail to meet the legally stipulated target of 30% e-auctions for this year. As of September, with an e-auction ended only 11.6% of the published bids. The trend of increase of the contracts without publishing notice continues. In this quarter, through direct contracts are spending 574 million (9.3 million), up 14% over the same period last year. Continued use of the element 'time of payment', which is forcing companies to offer terms for payment of invoices from public contracts up to 300 days. Based on these findings, recommendations on measures to overcome the weaknesses detected and comparative analysis of the manner in which two important issues...

SKOPJE, December 21, 2010 - Center for Civil Communications today announced the seventh quarterly report (.pdf) with the results of monitoring of public procurements at central and local level in the period July-September 2010 where they note the following key findings: Economic operators can not exercise the right to inspect the documentation of the procedures for public procurement they have participated in. This incorrect application of the Law on Public Procurement has increased suspicion of the companies for misuse the public procurement. The trend of reduction of competition in public procurement procedures continues. In only 47.5% of the monitored tenders in this quarter, there where only one or two companies bidding. Annulled are 22.5% of monitored procedures. From 2008 to 2010, the number of annulled procedures has increased for 2.5 times. Part of the contracting authorities do not respect the newly established deadline for taking bid selection. Contracting authorities fail to meet the legally stipulated target of 30% e-auctions for this year. As of September, with an e-auction ended only 11.6% of the published bids. The trend of increase of the contracts without publishing notice continues. In this quarter, through direct contracts are spending 574 million (9.3 million), up 14% over the same period last year. Continued use of the element 'time of payment', which is forcing companies to offer terms for payment of invoices from public contracts up to 300 days. Based on these findings, recommendations on measures to overcome the weaknesses detected and comparative analysis of the manner in which two important issues...

SKOPJE, December 21, 2010 - Center for Civil Communications today announced the seventh quarterly report (.pdf) with the results of monitoring of public procurements at central and local level in the period July-September 2010 where they note the following key findings: Economic operators can not exercise the right to inspect the documentation of the procedures for public procurement they have participated in. This incorrect application of the Law on Public Procurement has increased suspicion of the companies for misuse the public procurement. The trend of reduction of competition in public procurement procedures continues. In only 47.5% of the monitored tenders in this quarter, there where only one or two companies bidding. Annulled are 22.5% of monitored procedures. From 2008 to 2010, the number of annulled procedures has increased for 2.5 times. Part of the contracting authorities do not respect the newly established deadline for taking bid selection. Contracting authorities fail to meet the legally stipulated target of 30% e-auctions for this year. As of September, with an e-auction ended only 11.6% of the published bids. The trend of increase of the contracts without publishing notice continues. In this quarter, through direct contracts are spending 574 million (9.3 million), up 14% over the same period last year. Continued use of the element 'time of payment', which is forcing companies to offer terms for payment of invoices from public contracts up to 300 days. Based on these findings, recommendations on measures to overcome the weaknesses detected and comparative analysis of the manner in which two important issues...

SKOPJE, December 21, 2010 - Center for Civil Communications today announced the seventh quarterly report (.pdf) with the results of monitoring of public procurements at central and local level in the period July-September 2010 where they note the following key findings: Economic operators can not exercise the right to inspect the documentation of the procedures for public procurement they have participated in. This incorrect application of the Law on Public Procurement has increased suspicion of the companies for misuse the public procurement. The trend of reduction of competition in public procurement procedures continues. In only 47.5% of the monitored tenders in this quarter, there where only one or two companies bidding. Annulled are 22.5% of monitored procedures. From 2008 to 2010, the number of annulled procedures has increased for 2.5 times. Part of the contracting authorities do not respect the newly established deadline for taking bid selection. Contracting authorities fail to meet the legally stipulated target of 30% e-auctions for this year. As of September, with an e-auction ended only 11.6% of the published bids. The trend of increase of the contracts without publishing notice continues. In this quarter, through direct contracts are spending 574 million (9.3 million), up 14% over the same period last year. Continued use of the element 'time of payment', which is forcing companies to offer terms for payment of invoices from public contracts up to 300 days. Based on these findings, recommendations on measures to overcome the weaknesses detected and comparative analysis of the manner in which two important issues...

SKOPJE, December 21, 2010 - Center for Civil Communications today announced the seventh quarterly report (.pdf) with the results of monitoring of public procurements at central and local level in the period July-September 2010 where they note the following key findings: Economic operators can not exercise the right to inspect the documentation of the procedures for public procurement they have participated in. This incorrect application of the Law on Public Procurement has increased suspicion of the companies for misuse the public procurement. The trend of reduction of competition in public procurement procedures continues. In only 47.5% of the monitored tenders in this quarter, there where only one or two companies bidding. Annulled are 22.5% of monitored procedures. From 2008 to 2010, the number of annulled procedures has increased for 2.5 times. Part of the contracting authorities do not respect the newly established deadline for taking bid selection. Contracting authorities fail to meet the legally stipulated target of 30% e-auctions for this year. As of September, with an e-auction ended only 11.6% of the published bids. The trend of increase of the contracts without publishing notice continues. In this quarter, through direct contracts are spending 574 million (9.3 million), up 14% over the same period last year. Continued use of the element 'time of payment', which is forcing companies to offer terms for payment of invoices from public contracts up to 300 days. Based on these findings, recommendations on measures to overcome the weaknesses detected and comparative analysis of the manner in which two important issues...

SKOPJE, December 21, 2010 - Center for Civil Communications today announced the seventh quarterly report (.pdf) with the results of monitoring of public procurements at central and local level in the period July-September 2010 where they note the following key findings: Economic operators can not exercise the right to inspect the documentation of the procedures for public procurement they have participated in. This incorrect application of the Law on Public Procurement has increased suspicion of the companies for misuse the public procurement. The trend of reduction of competition in public procurement procedures continues. In only 47.5% of the monitored tenders in this quarter, there where only one or two companies bidding. Annulled are 22.5% of monitored procedures. From 2008 to 2010, the number of annulled procedures has increased for 2.5 times. Part of the contracting authorities do not respect the newly established deadline for taking bid selection. Contracting authorities fail to meet the legally stipulated target of 30% e-auctions for this year. As of September, with an e-auction ended only 11.6% of the published bids. The trend of increase of the contracts without publishing notice continues. In this quarter, through direct contracts are spending 574 million (9.3 million), up 14% over the same period last year. Continued use of the element 'time of payment', which is forcing companies to offer terms for payment of invoices from public contracts up to 300 days. Based on these findings, recommendations on measures to overcome the weaknesses detected and comparative analysis of the manner in which two important issues...

SKOPJE, December 21, 2010 - Center for Civil Communications today announced the seventh quarterly report (.pdf) with the results of monitoring of public procurements at central and local level in the period July-September 2010 where they note the following key findings: Economic operators can not exercise the right to inspect the documentation of the procedures for public procurement they have participated in. This incorrect application of the Law on Public Procurement has increased suspicion of the companies for misuse the public procurement. The trend of reduction of competition in public procurement procedures continues. In only 47.5% of the monitored tenders in this quarter, there where only one or two companies bidding. Annulled are 22.5% of monitored procedures. From 2008 to 2010, the number of annulled procedures has increased for 2.5 times. Part of the contracting authorities do not respect the newly established deadline for taking bid selection. Contracting authorities fail to meet the legally stipulated target of 30% e-auctions for this year. As of September, with an e-auction ended only 11.6% of the published bids. The trend of increase of the contracts without publishing notice continues. In this quarter, through direct contracts are spending 574 million (9.3 million), up 14% over the same period last year. Continued use of the element 'time of payment', which is forcing companies to offer terms for payment of invoices from public contracts up to 300 days. Based on these findings, recommendations on measures to overcome the weaknesses detected and comparative analysis of the manner in which two important issues...

Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...

Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...

Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...

Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...

Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...

Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...

Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...

Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...

Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...

Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...

Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...

Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...

Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...

Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...

Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...

Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...

10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/  

10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/  

10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/  

10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/  

10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/  

10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/  

10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/