Public procurement control systems are critical to almost exclusively the process's legality, the quality of goods and services, ensuring cost-effectiveness by encouraging competition and transparency. In this respect, good public procurement monitoring practices were discussed in Rezina by local public authorities, civil society, and procurement specialists. The discussions took place within the framework of the project "Innovative Improvements in the public procurement system of the Republic of Moldova through inclusion, creativity and compliance practices", implemented by IDIS "Viitorul", with the financial support of the European Union..

Procurement - and implicitly public investment - is a major opportunity for rebalancing the national economy. However, due to some malfunctions in the functioning of the national mechanisms, but also at the level of the market, the Republic of Moldova wants to align its public procurement system to the European standards.

"With extremely harsh legislation and abundant exceptions and an institutional architecture in which most authorities with competence in the field are limited to verifying the lawfulness of procedures rather than the efficient way of spending public money or the opportunity to make significant investments, The Republic of Moldova today has a public procurement system with major weaknesses, "explained Eugenia Rosca, president of the AO" Concordia ".

Tudor Iascenco, director of the newspaper, said that local public authorities tend to hide public procurement contracts and only favor a limited number of companies to win the auctions. "A football stadium in the amount of 72 million lei was built, although the initial cost was announced at 25 million lei. Overnight increased the price. The private sector is not necessarily more willing to stimulate transparency and, as a consequence, an increase in free market competition, especially in some areas of activity where there is almost a clear division of the market among some big players. "

Mayors attending the talks on the visit argue that they use various tools to ensure the transparency of public procurement, including the publication of advertisements in the Public Procurement Bulletin, but also on web pages or in the local print media, but are experiencing difficulties due to the lack of procurement specialists responsible for communication, as well as the modest involvement of civil society and citizens.

"For the efficiency of public spending, we need to get the best results in public procurement (the best value for money). To achieve this, it is important to generate the strongest possible competition for public contracts awarded on the domestic market. Tenderers must be able to compete on equal terms and distortion of competition should be avoided, "concluded Carolina Ungureanu, project coordinator.

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