<p>SKOPJE, 4 September, 2014 – Today, the Centre for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurement procedures in Macedonia for the periodApril-June 2014. Key findings include:</p>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Multiannual trend of decreasing number of appeals lodged by companies in front of the State Commission on Public Procurement Appeals (SCPPA) is discontinued. In the first semester of 2014, SCPPA was presented with a total of 330 appeals, accounting for an increase by 13.4% compared to the same period last year. Also, for the first time in several years, high share of decisions taken by SCPPA imply approval of appeals.</span></li>
<li>Significant share of bids submitted in tender procedures do not reach the bid-evaluation stage. In that, reasons indicated for rejection of bids include administrative shortcomings of bids submitted and failure to fulfil requirements defined in relevant tender documents (eligibility criteria and terms and conditions defined in tender specifications).</li>
<li>Recently adopted law amendments in effect from January 2014 have yield expected results in reducing the share of contracts signed by means of negotiation procedure without previously announced call for bids, but are still ineffective in terms of reduced number of tender annulments. In the second quarter of 2014, the total values of direct contracts accounts for 10.5 million EUR, and 22.4% of all announced tenders were annulled.</li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Competition is still on unsatisfactory level. Only 47% of tender procedures from the monitoring sample were completed with e-auction.</span></li>
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<p>This Report is available <a href="images/stories/k22e.pdf">here</a>. For more information, please contact the Centre for Civil Communications on tel. (02) 3213-513 or by e-mail: <a href="mailto:center@ccc.org.mk">center@ccc.org.mk</a>.</p>
<p>NOTE TO THE EDITORS:</p>
<p>USAID Civil Society Project is implemented by the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia (FOSM) in partnership with the Centre for Civil Communications, the Youth Educational Forum, Reactor – Research in Action, and Forum – Centre for Strategic Research and Documentation.</p>
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