<p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">- 46% of companies believe that corruption is present in public procurement, and 18% reported they have personally faced corruption in tenders.<br /> - 54% of companies acknowledge that there is bid rigging. <br /> - 93% of companies believe that e-auctions result in attainment of unrealistic prices and undermine the quality. <br /> - For 63% of companies, the 'lowest price' used as selection criterion is the most frequent problem they face in public procurement.<br /> - Companies submitted 751 appeals before the State Commission for Public Procurement Complaints in 2022, which is a decrease of 34% compared to the previous year. <br /> - Through the non-transparent procedure of negotiation without prior tender notice, contracts worth 31 million EUR were awarded, which is a decrease of 30% compared to the previous year.<br /> - 31% of public procurement procedures were annulled.<br /> - 90% of the monitored tenders were conducted later than the deadline foreseen in the public procurement plans.<br /> - The average number of bids per tender in 2022 accounts for 3, which indicates a decrease in competition compared to 2021.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">For more information, please contact the Center for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at <a href="mailto:center@ccc.org.mk">center@ccc.org.mk</a>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">The report was prepared as part of the project "Monitoring of public procurements", implemented by the Center for Civil Communications and financially supported by the Foundation Open Society - Macedonia.</span></span></p>
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