Public finance management – public procurement in the administration
This report elaborates on the seven requirements for the needs of the analysis, specifically in the section on the transparency and competitiveness of the public procurement practices of the Ministry of Finance, which, as a contracting authority, plans and implements public procurement procedures for its own needs. The analysis was made by studying the Annual Plan for Public Procurement of the Ministry of Finance for 2021 and the current year 2022 (based on publicly available data up until 30/04/2022). The source of the data for the Ministry of Finance is ESPP – https://e-nabavki.gov.mk/PublicAccess/Home.aspx#/home and the website of the Ministry of Finance, which has a separate section for public procurement – https://bit.ly/3Q00ynF. In
order to increase accountability and transparency in the public procurement of ESPP, several opportunities have been introduced in order for the general public to have an insight into them, namely:
• announcement of the planned public procurements, which are also available on the website of the Ministry of Finance with data taken from ESPP,
• publication of the published announcements for public procurement, which are also available on the website of the Ministry of Finance with data taken from ESPP,
• publication of the awarded contracts for public procurement, which are also available on the website of the Ministry of Finance with data taken from ESPP and,
• publication of completed contracts for public procurement, which are also available on the website of the Ministry of Finance with data taken from ESPP.
In addition, the contracting authorities are obliged to publish the open procedures and the simplified open procedures in the Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia (hereinafter known as the Official Gazette). The Official Gazette of R.N. Macedonia has a section with announcements, where are published open procedures and simplified open procedures. This information and advertisements are connected to and integrated with ESPP and instantly are published in both media.
