Third quarterly report on monitoring of public procurement for 2012
The analysis aims at assessing the public procurement process implementation in light of the new Public Procurement Law and establishing whether and to what extent the following fundamental public procurement principles are met: transparency, competitiveness, equal treatment of economic operators, non-discrimination, lawfulness, costeffective, efficiency, effective and rational use of budget funds, commitment to obtain the best bid under most favorable terms and conditions, as well as accountability for the funds spent for procurements.
The analysis of the public procurement process in the Republic of Macedonia is performed based on the monitoring of randomly selected public procurement procedures (40 per quarter). Monitoring activities start with the publication of calls for bids in the Official Gazette, followed by attendance on public opening of bids and data collection on the procedure course by the means of in-depth interviews and structured questionnaires submitted to economic operators, as well as data obtained from contracting authorities by means of Freedom of Information applications. The analysis of the present Report has been performed based on monitoring of selected sample of 40 public procurement procedures implemented by central-level contracting authorities, while the public opening of those bids took place in the period July – September 2012. The present Report also includes a comparative analysis of the application of the economic operators’ exclusion from participating in public procurement procedures (negative references).