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SKOPJE, 31 January 2014 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the period July-September 2013. Key findings include: Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample, have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidder that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Some contracting authorities continue to use bid-evaluation elements that do not guarantee objective selection of the most favourable bid. Cases have been noted where the contracting authorities allocated points to the bidding companies with whom they have signed procurement contracts in the past, as well as cases in which there is no clear methodology on point-ranking of the quality element. In the third quarter of 2013, the value of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids amounts to 21.3 million EUR and represents an increase by 52% compared to same period last year. In accumulative terms, procurement contracts signed in this manner in the first 9 months of 2013 amount to a total of 47.7 million EUR. In the third quarter of 2013, every fourth tender procedure was unsuccessful (25.7%). The most frequently...

SKOPJE, 31 January 2014 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the period July-September 2013. Key findings include: Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample, have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidder that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Some contracting authorities continue to use bid-evaluation elements that do not guarantee objective selection of the most favourable bid. Cases have been noted where the contracting authorities allocated points to the bidding companies with whom they have signed procurement contracts in the past, as well as cases in which there is no clear methodology on point-ranking of the quality element. In the third quarter of 2013, the value of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids amounts to 21.3 million EUR and represents an increase by 52% compared to same period last year. In accumulative terms, procurement contracts signed in this manner in the first 9 months of 2013 amount to a total of 47.7 million EUR. In the third quarter of 2013, every fourth tender procedure was unsuccessful (25.7%). The most frequently...

SKOPJE, 31 January 2014 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the period July-September 2013. Key findings include: Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample, have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidder that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Some contracting authorities continue to use bid-evaluation elements that do not guarantee objective selection of the most favourable bid. Cases have been noted where the contracting authorities allocated points to the bidding companies with whom they have signed procurement contracts in the past, as well as cases in which there is no clear methodology on point-ranking of the quality element. In the third quarter of 2013, the value of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids amounts to 21.3 million EUR and represents an increase by 52% compared to same period last year. In accumulative terms, procurement contracts signed in this manner in the first 9 months of 2013 amount to a total of 47.7 million EUR. In the third quarter of 2013, every fourth tender procedure was unsuccessful (25.7%). The most frequently...

SKOPJE, 31 January 2014 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the period July-September 2013. Key findings include: Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample, have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidder that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Some contracting authorities continue to use bid-evaluation elements that do not guarantee objective selection of the most favourable bid. Cases have been noted where the contracting authorities allocated points to the bidding companies with whom they have signed procurement contracts in the past, as well as cases in which there is no clear methodology on point-ranking of the quality element. In the third quarter of 2013, the value of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids amounts to 21.3 million EUR and represents an increase by 52% compared to same period last year. In accumulative terms, procurement contracts signed in this manner in the first 9 months of 2013 amount to a total of 47.7 million EUR. In the third quarter of 2013, every fourth tender procedure was unsuccessful (25.7%). The most frequently...

SKOPJE, 31 January 2014 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the period July-September 2013. Key findings include: Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample, have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidder that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Some contracting authorities continue to use bid-evaluation elements that do not guarantee objective selection of the most favourable bid. Cases have been noted where the contracting authorities allocated points to the bidding companies with whom they have signed procurement contracts in the past, as well as cases in which there is no clear methodology on point-ranking of the quality element. In the third quarter of 2013, the value of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids amounts to 21.3 million EUR and represents an increase by 52% compared to same period last year. In accumulative terms, procurement contracts signed in this manner in the first 9 months of 2013 amount to a total of 47.7 million EUR. In the third quarter of 2013, every fourth tender procedure was unsuccessful (25.7%). The most frequently...

SKOPJE, 31 January 2014 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the period July-September 2013. Key findings include: Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample, have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidder that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Some contracting authorities continue to use bid-evaluation elements that do not guarantee objective selection of the most favourable bid. Cases have been noted where the contracting authorities allocated points to the bidding companies with whom they have signed procurement contracts in the past, as well as cases in which there is no clear methodology on point-ranking of the quality element. In the third quarter of 2013, the value of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids amounts to 21.3 million EUR and represents an increase by 52% compared to same period last year. In accumulative terms, procurement contracts signed in this manner in the first 9 months of 2013 amount to a total of 47.7 million EUR. In the third quarter of 2013, every fourth tender procedure was unsuccessful (25.7%). The most frequently...

SKOPJE, 31 January 2014 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the period July-September 2013. Key findings include: Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample, have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidder that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Some contracting authorities continue to use bid-evaluation elements that do not guarantee objective selection of the most favourable bid. Cases have been noted where the contracting authorities allocated points to the bidding companies with whom they have signed procurement contracts in the past, as well as cases in which there is no clear methodology on point-ranking of the quality element. In the third quarter of 2013, the value of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids amounts to 21.3 million EUR and represents an increase by 52% compared to same period last year. In accumulative terms, procurement contracts signed in this manner in the first 9 months of 2013 amount to a total of 47.7 million EUR. In the third quarter of 2013, every fourth tender procedure was unsuccessful (25.7%). The most frequently...

SKOPJE, 31 January 2014 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the period July-September 2013. Key findings include: Almost one third of tender procedures from the monitoring sample, have been completed with awarding the procurement contract to the single bidding company that participated therein. In such cases, the tender procedure is not completed with the organization of electronic competition for reduction of initially bided prices, i.e. with the so called e-auction. On the account of this, tender procedures with one bidder that has been awarded the contract imply a major risk of signing the procurement contract under prices higher than the actual market prices. Some contracting authorities continue to use bid-evaluation elements that do not guarantee objective selection of the most favourable bid. Cases have been noted where the contracting authorities allocated points to the bidding companies with whom they have signed procurement contracts in the past, as well as cases in which there is no clear methodology on point-ranking of the quality element. In the third quarter of 2013, the value of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids amounts to 21.3 million EUR and represents an increase by 52% compared to same period last year. In accumulative terms, procurement contracts signed in this manner in the first 9 months of 2013 amount to a total of 47.7 million EUR. In the third quarter of 2013, every fourth tender procedure was unsuccessful (25.7%). The most frequently...

Procurement’s Estimated Value – a Hot Potato for the Contracting Authorities SKOPJE, March 16, 2015 – Today, the Centre for Civil Communications published the results from its regular monitoring of public procurements implemented by local authorities for the period April – September 2014. Key findings include: Long-awaited and, for the companies, highly-desired novelty in public procurements defined as mandatory publication of the procurement’s estimated value, seems to be a hot potato for the contracting authorities which, most of them, do not know how to handle. Notably, there are numerous examples of tender procedures that have raised certain problems in terms of their implementation, with reasons thereof stemming from the procurement’s estimated value. Series of changes made to the legislation on public procurements, at least in the first months of their application, have not resulted in increased competition in tender procedures on local level. In the monitoring sample, the average competition accounted for 2.7 bidders per procedure, while 38% of monitored tender procedures included one or no bid. After a two-year period in which the share of annulled tender procedures has been stabilized at around 15%, annulment of tender procedures on local level is again on the rise and accounts for 20%. Contrary to practices observed in the past when the main ground indicated for tender annulment was absence of bids, nowadays the main reason implies unfavourable prices. Average duration of public procurement procedures from the monitoring sample, from announcement of procurement notice to contract signing, accounts for 33 days and implies small improvement compared to...

The Index of Rationality no.9 is developed for the following five types of products, i.e. services: maintenance of elevators; printing of bill forms; RTG X-ray films; cow’s milk cheese; and GPS devices. The Index of Rationality for these types of products and services was developed by targeting national and local institutions that have procured these products or services in the first half of 2013. Initially, a total of 53 national and local contracting authorities were addressed with FOI applications inquiring about prices attained for procurement of given products or services. However, due to objective or subjective reasons, as indicated throughout the analysis, in the end the Index was developed on the basis of price information provided by 39 institutions.