The degree of transparency of the contracting authority highlights fairness and activity in the interest of the citizen of the elected people. However, the judicious spending of public money through public procurement contracts is also an important means of balancing macro-budget at the national level. It is one of the messages of the Cahul event on good practices in public procurement monitoring, which took place within 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.
"Transparency makes work more efficient, especially since there is the practice of online submission of opening sessions for public tenders. From the beginning of the public procurement process to its completion and even thereafter, the contracting authority must manifest and comply with the regulations to ensure the transparency of this process. Also, any citizen or civil society actor must have unrestricted access to the public procurement documents and/or information. This is reflected both in the provision of the required information on request and in the ex officio publication on the authority's website of data or information on the public procurement carried out, explained the mayor of Cahul, Nicolae Dandis.
Sofia Ursul, chair of the Citizens' Initiative Association, argues that a complementary objective is to enable purchasers to make more effective use of public procurement in favor of meeting common goals for the benefit of society: these include environmental protection, resource efficiency, promoting innovation and inclusion social conditions and ensuring the best possible conditions for providing high-quality public services. "The pursuit of this goal can help to increase public spending in the long run. For example, giving less importance to the lowest initial price and more importance to the lowest life-cycle cost. "
According to the project coordinator, Carolina Ungureanu, all those who contribute through their actions to the implementation of the provisions of the current legal framework on public procurement need to be aware that the public procurement dossier is a public document and that, once stated, any confusion regarding what the dossier constitutes as a public document and which confidential data should be eliminated through a strong national policy towards promoting the legitimate interests of citizens in the transparency of public procurement contracts.
In conclusion, the participants in the discussion said that, in the end, not the plurality of types of purchases must count, but the final outcome of them, namely how to proceed to make public money as efficiently as possible.
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