Wide range of institutions participated at the forum: Bureau for public procurements, State commission for public procurements appeals, State commission for fighting corruption, economic chambers, MASIT, NGO’s, representatives of foreign missions in the country and Open society institute- Macedonia (supporter of the project).
Vanja Mihajlova, anticorruption expert, presented the recommendations for strenghtening the system, which evolve from the located weaknesses in enforcement of public procurement. Part of them show the necessity of legislative change, and the other part calls the state agencies to start enforcing “best practices”. Tome Nenovski, professor at American University in Skopje and member of the experts team, made conclusion about the public procurement process in 2008, based on the recently published report of the Bureau and it’s facts.
In the discussion, all participants claimed the relevance of the report, it’s general and real display of the situation in this field and agreed that there is enough space for development. On one hand, some of the state agencies representatives agreed with part of the suggestions, but at the other hand, emphasized that some of them are undertaken from the EU regulation and it’s hard to change.