<div class="jfdefaulttext"><a href="http://soros.org.mk/dokumenti/ang-10-kvartalen-izvestaj-za-web.pdf" target="_blank">Second Quarterly Report 2011</a></div>
<div class="jfdefaulttext"><br />The analysis of the public procurement process in the Republic of Macedonia was performed based on the monitoring of randomly selected sample of public procurementprocedures (40 per quarter). Monitoring activities start with the publication of calls for bids in the “Official Gazette of theRepublic of Macedonia”, followed by attendance on public opening of bids and data collection on the procedure course,and use in-depth interviews and structured questionnaires submitted to the economic operators, as well as data obtained from contracting authorities by means of Freedomof Information (FOI) applications.</div>
<div class="jfdefaulttext"><br />The present analysis was performed based on monitoringof selected sample of 40 public procurement proceduresimplemented by central level contracting authorities, whosepublic opening of bids took place in the period April – June 2011.</div>