In order to ensure that the considerable amounts of public money that go annually through public procurement are not vulnerable to corruption risks and public interest prevails in the public contracting process, transparency and openness of data are indispensable. However, open contracting is the one that ensures the application of these principles throughout the public procurement process, but also the active involvement of all actors, including the private sector and the civil society. This was also the topic of the workshop organized by IDIS Viitorul for a group of representatives of civil society and the media, who expressed their interest in the principle of open contracting in public procurement.

"Governments have the duty to ensure that supervising bodies, including the Parliament, the Court of Auditors or contracting authorities, have access to and use the information they publish, take into account and react to their citizens' feedback, and encourage dialogue and consultations between the contracting parties and civil society organizations to improve the quality of contracting results", explained Viorel Chivriga.

According to him, the expected results are: transparency in public procurement, reduced bureaucracy in the system, partnerships, cooperation with stakeholders in the modernization of public procurement, ensuring monitoring of public procurements throughout the whole process, free competition, compressing and elimination of illegalities in the field of public procurement and the transfer of experience, positive practices and expertise to the sector.

Diana Enachi, who spoke about open contracts, said the benefits are "getting value for money" for authorities, streamlining public budgets/spending, ensuring fair competition and non-discrimination for the private sector, especially for SMEs, risk management of corruption and fraud prevention, the ability to analyze and monitor purchases, and generate solutions to the issues that arise.

The workshop was organized by IDIS Viitorul in the framework of the project: "Development of open contracting in Moldova through information and capacity building activities for participants in the public procurement process through developing information and capacity building for participants in the public procurement process Procurement process ", financed by the World Bank.