Procurement’s Estimated Value – a Hot Potato for the Contracting Authorities
The Center for Civil Communications (CCC) was established in 2005 as a non-governmental, non-profit and non-partisan citizens’ association. CCC’s mission is to develop and improve communications among all societal factors in Macedonia and to inform them about various processes of broader significance. CCC monitors, analyses and strengthens democratic processes in the country and in the region, especially those related to anticorruption and good governance, media and economic development. In its nine-year operation, CCC focused its work on two groups of interrelated activities: (1) monitoring of state institutions and, on that basis, recommending measures and policies aimed at promoting their work and narrowing the space for corruption; and (2) enhancing the abilities of journalists and the special role played by the media and non-governmental organizations in the fight against corruption. In this regard, CCC – to present– has drafted and proposed several hundreds of specific recommendations concerning measures that need to betaken to promote the legislation and practices aimed at more transparent, accountable and responsible operation on the part of central and local authorities; has trained over five hundred journalists from both, national and local media outlets, as well as representatives of civil society organizations; and has published around thirty research studies and manuals.