SKOPJE, 20 June 2017 – Today, the Center for Civil Communications published its monitoring report on public procurements organized by institutions at local level.

Key findings include:

- The already low competition in tender procedures organized on local level continues to decline. Monitored tender procedures were marked by an average participation of 2.4 bidding companies, while 35% of tender procedures were presented with only one bid or no bids. For comparison purposes, in the previous reporting period the average number of bidding companies per tender procedures accounted for 2.8, while 29% of tender procedures were presented with only one bid or no bids.

- Although duration of tender procedures is extended, companies have shorter deadlines for development and submission of their bids. In most cases, contracting authorities set the minimum law-stipulated deadline for bid submission. However, unlike these calendar-based deadlines, the actual deadlines for companies to develop and submit their bids are much shorter. There are cases in which companies have only had one day to develop and submit their bids.

- The share of tender annulments in the monitoring sample remains at the same high level of 18%. Dominant reasons indicated for annulment of public procurements include high prices and absence of bidding companies in tender procedures.

- Although they are mandatory for all procurements, e-auctions were organized in only 55% of monitored tender procedures. On the contrary, the share of so-called e-procurements or tender procedures fully organized in electronic manner accounted for 58%. The average price reduction at e-actions accounted for decrease by only 10%.

- There are numerous examples in which contracting authorities have taken different actions in same situations,  i.e. when bidding companies have not submitted complete bids. Some contracting authorities requested them to provide the necessary additional documents, while others immediately excluded said companies from the procurement procedure.

The report is available here. For more information, please contact the Center for Civil Communications by tel.: (02) 3213-513 or by e-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Анализа на резултатите од истражувањето на финансиските трансфери од општините до невладините организации во 2016 година

Со ова истражување се мапираат карактеристиките на процесот на финансирање на невладините организации од буџетската линија 463, се утврдува нивото на транспарентност и отчетност на општините, се детектираат проблемите и слабостите во процесот и се дефинираат препораки за подобрување на веќе востановените практики.

Со ова истражување, за прв пат во Македонија, на едно место се претставени сумарни и поединечни податоци за средствата доделени од општините на невладините организации, листата на добитниците на проектите, како и транспарентноста на целиот процес од објавувањето оглас до реализацијата на проектите. До базата на отворени податоци од истражувањето може да се оди преку следниот линк.

The research among companies related to their experience from participation in public procurement procedures was conducted in the period November - December 2016. It targeted a total of 230 companies from all bigger towns across the country. This research represents the seventh regular survey of companies in relation to public procurement conducted by the Center for Civil Communications as part of their monitoring of public procurement from 2009 onwards. This analysis presents survey results, as well as comparison against results obtained on previous surveys, for the purpose of presenting the actual current state-of-affairs, but also trends in public procurement.

Skopje, September 21, 2016 - The Center for Civil Communications announced today the results of research of active transparency of institutions. The ranking covers all 81 municipalities and the City of Skopje, 15 ministries and the Government. The percentage of fulfillment of the obligations for disclosure of public information of all 97 institutions is 45% (of 100%).

The legal basis for active transparency of the institutions are located primarily in the Law on Free Access to Public Information, and in many other laws such as the Law on Local Self-Government, the Budget Law, the Law on Public Debt, the Law on Financing of Units local self-government, etc. Apart from regulation, active transparency derives from practice, i.e. when an institution makes available to all citizens answers to questions often received in the form of requests for access to public information.

According to the scale of active transparency, most institutions (33%) are in the group with an 'average' active transparency, and least (4%) are in the best group, the one with 'good' active transparency. Generally, municipalities stand much better than the ministries and government. The municipalities are ranked on the first 18 places and the best ministry is only on 19^th place. All four institutions in the top group, with 'very good' active transparency are municipalities.

In terms of specific areas of active transparency - the institutions publish most information on access to information, and least in the area of ​​budgetary and financial transparency.

The ranking of the institutions and the research are available only in Macedonian.

The research was conducted within the Civica Mobilitas program, which supports the annual program of the CCC.