<p><strong>Almost every third tender procedure is marked by participation of one bidding company</strong></p>
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<p>SKOPJE, 20 June 2017 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published its monitoring report on public procurements organized by institutions at central level in the period July-December 2016.</p>
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<p><strong>Key findings include: </strong></p>
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<li>In 2016, as high as 23% of tender procedures were      fully or partially annulled, representing an increase by 3 percentile      points compared to the previous year. Monitoring activities recorded a      series of examples for tender annulments that could be assessed as      problematic.</li>
<li>Almost every third tender procedure      is marked by participation of one bidding company. In 2016, this situation      was primarily a consequence of low competition observed in the first half      of the year.</li>
<li>Bureaucratization of public procurement      procedures with applications for approval from the Council of Public      Procurements has not lost in intensity. In 2016, contracting authorities      addressed the Council of Public Procurements with a total of 16,067      applications for approval, which cost them total of 1.8 million EUR. </li>
<li>E-auctions were organized in only 55% of      monitored procurement procedures.</li>
<li>In 2016, total of 605 procurement contracts were signed without      previously announced call for bids and their value amounted to 34.8      million EUR. Total value of these contracts is by 20% higher compared to      2015. The highest procurement contracts signed under this non-transparent      procedure belonged to JSC Macedonian Power Plants and concerned excavation      of coal and slag for the need of RU Mines, MEC Bitola, in the value of      around 5.8 million EUR.</li>
<li>In 2016, companies have lodged 557 appeals. The      number of appeals is indicative of exceptionally small share of public      procurement procedures appealed by companies, accounting for only 3%.</li>
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<p>The report is available <a href="images/stories/i28e.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. For more information, please contact the Center for Civil Communications by tel.: (02) 3213-513 or by e-mail: <a href="mailto:center@ccc.org.mk">center@ccc.org.mk</a>.</p>