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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Today, September 30, 2024, the Center for Civil Communications announced:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- The <a href="images/monitoring public procurement 40.pdf" target="_blank">report from the regular monitoring of public procurement</a>, which includes surveys with companies and representatives of state institutions;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- The <a href="images/index of rationality 21.pdf" target="_blank">Index of rationality</a> where the prices at which different institutions procured exactly the same products or services are compared and</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- The <a href="https://javninabavki.opendata.mk/" target="_blank">database on public procurement of municipalities for 2023</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Key findings from these surveys include:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- Public procurement in 2023 reached a record high value and a record low competition in the last 10 years. Contracts for public procurement were concluded in the total value of 1.5 billion euros, which is 35% more than the previous year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- According to the monitoring of public procurements, the average number of offers per tender was 2.7. In one third of the tenders, only one bid was received. The absence of competition is a consequence of favoring tender documents and lost confidence of the business sector in fair procurement competition.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- 41% of public procurement officials for state institutions believe that there is often corruption in procurement. Most of them say that corruption is the most prevalent as a result of political interests, and that companies are a bigger generator of corruption than officials in institutions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- And 51% of the companies that participate in public procurements believe that there is corruption in the procurements, and 23% of the companies involved in the research personally faced it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- The rationality index reveals large differences in the prices at which institutions buy the same products and services. Thus, for example, the same licenses for computer software are purchased at prices from MKD 6,185 to MKD 23,100.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- The database on public procurement of municipalities, however, reveals that in 2023, municipalities spent 40% more money on procurement than the previous year and that only ten companies received 25% of the value of all tenders.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">The reports and researches were developed as part of the "Monitoring of public procurements", implemented by the Center for Civil Communications and financially supported by the Foundation Open Society - Macedonia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">For more information, please contact the Center for Civic Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at <a href="mailto:center@ccc.org.mk">center@ccc.org.mk</a>.</span></p>