The best solution for the efficiency of the procurement system remains to increase the transparency of the entire process, from posting the procurement announcement to signing the contract, with all the payments made to the provider, the goods, and services delivered, displayed in a transparent manner to all interested parties. It was one of the topics of the Balti debates, 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.
"The primordial interest of the contracting authorities must be the transparency and the efficiency of the spending of public resources, not the protection of the interests of the private actors, and this has been achieved by the City Hall of Bălţi, which placed the city at the top of the public procurement transparency ranking, explained Irina Serdiuc, secretary of the Balti Municipal Council.
According to her, procurement competition is supported by transparency, so public authorities directly support that all information about a bid is advertised, as well as companies themselves, in order to ensure a clear balance in the market offer area. "We have published all the procurement contracts on the City Hall website. An improved legal framework regulating the procurement process is sufficiently supple, with clear provisions, penalties and transparency rules. "
"Total transparency is the only solution, both to prevent any conflict of interest situations and to discourage tenderers in pursuing the contracting of the contracting authority and to delay the realization of investment projects, more than any type of pecuniary type requesting a guarantee of participation" , said Diana Grosu, president of the "Association for Human Rights - Lex XXI".
Public procurement should emphasize both the transparency of public money to citizens and the creation of a fair and predictable competition framework for all interested private stakeholders without favoring certain actors already in the market.
"Other institutions are able to mimic the transparency of public procurement by building detailed and complete sections on their own site, but when they open the pages, we can see with surprise the lack of information," said Carolina Ungureanu, project coordinator.
In conclusion, the participants in the discussion mentioned that the public procurement process should be based on transparency and open competition between contracting authorities and tenderers on the one hand and between the bidders involved in the process on the other. Each contracting authority has the duty to consider mainly a number of issues related to ensuring the effectiveness of public money spent, this process is realized only for the benefit of the public interest, as well as the transparency of the acquisitions made towards any citizen.
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