<p style="text-align: left;">SKOPJE, 20 May 2014 – Today, the Centre for Civil Communications published the <a href="http://www.ccc.org.mk/images/stories/k20eng.pdf" target="_blank">Monitoring results for public procurement procedures</a> in Macedonia for the period October – December 2013, and the <a href="http://www.ccc.org.mk/images/stories/i10eng.pdf" target="_blank">Index of Rationality no. 10</a>.<span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Key findings related to monitoring of public procurements include:</span></p>
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<li>In 2013, competition in public procurements remained low. Average number of bids submitted in 2013 tender procedures monitored (total of 160) is 2.6 and more than one third of tender procedures received only one bid. </li>
<li>Six years have passed from the entry into effect of the Law on Public Procurements (LPP), but some institutions continue to act contrary to the legal provisions contained therein and companies are still unaware of their rights related to legal remedies. </li>
<li>In the course of 2013, a total of 1,368 procurement contracts were signed by means of negotiation procedures without previously announced calls for bids and they account for around 81 million EUR. </li>
<li>In 2013, 22.7% of all tender procedures were annulled. Moreover, most frequently annulled are tender procedures in the value up to 20,000 EUR. </li>
<li>Multiannual trend of decreasing the number of appeals lodged by the companies in front of the State Commission on Public Procurement Appeals continues. SCPPA approved every third motion for appeal and most of its decisions taken in the appeal procedure concern complete annulment of tender procedures.</li>
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