Transparency of procurement data generates efficient use of public money and minimizes the risk of contracting authorities, transparency of public procurement, ensuring competition and combating unfair competition, and promoting sustainable development through public procurement. It is the generic of the seventh training for civil society representatives in 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.
"International practice shows that electronic procurement systems can be a good tool for streamlining public budgets and strengthening good governance. Electronic purchases bring benefits to both authorities by reducing administrative burdens and the private environment - by ensuring a healthy competitive environment and equal conditions when participating in a procurement process. But the greatest benefit is getting the value for public money, which means we can get the best value for money and quality and therefore we will have quality public services", says Diana Enachi, project coordinator.
Daniela Panuş, chief legal officer of the Public Procurement Agency, stated that the opening of procurement data has the advantage of free movement of goods, freedom of establishment and provision of services, equal treatment, impartiality, non-discrimination with regard to all tenderers and economic operators, proportionality and assuming responsibility in public procurement procedures.
In turn, Deputy Finance Minister Iurii Cicibaba, present at the training, stressed that one of the steps taken by the Ministry of Finance to reform the public procurement system, especially with regard to the e-procurement system, was the call for cooperation with civil society and business environment and signing a memorandum. The Vice-Minister spoke to the participants about the M-Tender electronic procurement system: the architecture of the system, the benefits of the multiplatform approach (stimulating competition, encouraging the provision of additional services, distributing the costs of implementation and maintenance), the advantages for the participants in the procedure (all economic operators are placed on equal terms They can bid online anywhere they are not, they can participate in the electronic auction wherever they are not, they can see the price of the other bidders during the electronic auction if the procurement procedure is completed with the auction, etc.); advantages for the procurement organizer (the possibility of using the electronic auction, increasing the number of participants, operative support from the platforms, additional services from the platforms).
"Transparency in the public procurement process will put all participants on an equal footing and avoid the trickery and jitters between contracting authorities and tenderers," said Gac Doriana, a volunteer from the NGO's Equal Opportunities for All.
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