Report on Public Procurement in Montenegro for 2016
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GOVERNMENT OF MONTENEGRO Public Procurement Administration REPORT ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN MONTENEGRO FOR 2016 Podgorica, May 2017 1 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 6 2. ACTIVITIES FROM THE SCOPE OF COMPETENCES OF THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ADMINISTRATION ................................................................................ 9 3. ACTIVITIES IN THE EU ACCESSION PROCESS ....................................................... 10 3.1. Chapter 5 ...................................................................................................................... 10 3.2. Chapter 23 .................................................................................................................... 21 3.3. Chapter 22 .................................................................................................................... 22 4. EXECUTION OF THE ACTION PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT SYSTEM IN MNE FOR THE PERIOD 2016-2020 .................................................................................... 23 4.1. Report on work of the Coordination Body .................................................................. 23 4.1.1. The Analysis of the Effects of Implementation of Amendments to the Public Procurement Law in practice – development of a SWOT Analysis and the Analysis of compliance between the Amendments to the PPL and the requirements of new Directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU ........................................................................ 24 4.1.2. Development of the draft Amendments to the Public Procuremenmt Law for the purpose of its harmonization with the new Law on Administrative Procedure .............. 29 4.1.3. Conducting of certain activities on the preparation of the technical basis for the adoption of a new PPL and ensuring full transparency and participation in making of the new PPL .................................................................................................................... 29 4.1.4. Organization of roundtables in purpose of preparation for development of communication guidelines for the small and medium enterprises in Montenegro ......... 30 4.1.5. List of parties (contracting authorities) covered by the application of the Public Procurement Law ............................................................................................................ 30 4.1.6. List of bidders ....................................................................................................... 30 4.1.7. List of public procurement officers ....................................................................... 31 5. MONITORING OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES ................................... 34 5.1. The most common mistakes of the contracting authorities: ....................................... 35 5.2. The most common mistakes of interested parties are as follows: ............................... 37 5.3. The most common mistakes of the bidders are the following: .................................... 38 5.4. Strengthening of the Help desk center for providing advisory and consultant services ............................................................................................................................................ 42 5.5. A campaign on raising the public awareness and transparency in public procurement ............................................................................................................................................ 43 5.6. Interinstitutional cooperation in public procurement .................................................. 44 2 5.7. Facilitated access to information on public procurement, upgrading of the Public Procurement Portal as well as of publication of all related documents on public procurement ........................................................................................................................ 44 5.8. Planning public procurement and contract management ............................................. 46 5.9. Preparation, monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the Integrity Plan .. 47 5.10. The Public Procurement Forum ................................................................................. 48 5.11. The Assessment Report on Public Procurement System in Montenegro prepared in cooperation with the representatives of SIGMA/OECD .................................................... 49 5.12. Strengthened capacities of the Public Procurement Administration ......................... 49 6. COOPERATION WITH NGOs ......................................................................................... 49 7. TRAINING IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT FIELD AND STRENGTHENING ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITIES ...................................................................................... 52 7.1. Legislative framework for professional development and training in public procurement field ................................................................................................................ 52 7.1.1. Organization of trainings and professional examinations for performing public procurement tasks ........................................................................................................... 54 7.1.2. Organization of expert education of the PPA officers on implementation of the EU regulations and their proper interpretation for purpose of implementation of the new PPL and other educations ................................................................................................ 56 8. PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ............................... 57 8.1. The PPA initiatives submitted to the AIA ................................................................... 66 9. THE GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT AGREEMENT (GPA) ................................... 66 10. REALIZATION OF THE INITIATED PROJECTS OF IMPORTANCE FOR THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT SYSTEM .................................................................................. 68 (4 PROJECTS) ....................................................................................................................... 68 11. THE STATISTICAL REPORT ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ................................... 71 11.1. The parties covered by the application of the Law .................................................... 72 11.2. Exemptions from the application of the Public Procurement Law ........................... 73 11.3. Number of reports submitted to the PPA .................................................................. 73 11.4. Total contracted value of public procurement for 2016 ............................................ 74 11.5. Number and value of the contracts according to value scales ............................. 75 11.6. Procurement according to the type of subject of public procurement ....................... 78 11.7. Public procurement above the EU thresholds according to procurement subjects ... 79 11.8. Procurement according to the procedure types .......................................................... 80 11.9. Framework agreement ............................................................................................... 84 11.10. Open public procurement procedure ....................................................................... 85 11.11. Shopping .................................................................................................................. 86 3 11.12. Direct agreement ...................................................................................................... 87 11.13. Negotiated procedure without prior publication of the contract notice ................... 89 11.14. Negotiated procedure with prior publication of the contract notice ........................ 93 11.15. The savings achieved ............................................................................................... 94 11.16. The criteria for selection of the most advantageous bid .......................................... 95 11.17. The intensity of competition and number of procedures with a single bidder ........ 96 11.18. Decisions on suspension of the procedure ............................................................... 97 11.19. Public procurement portal ....................................................................................... 98 11.20. The value of awarded contracts and the participation of the bidders outside MNE in the total number of contracts .............................................................................................. 99 12. PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN HEALTH SECTOR, LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT UNITS, MINISTRIES AND SCHOOLS ............................................................................. 101 12.1. Public procurement in health institutions ............................................................. 102 12.2. Public procurement at the level of local self-governments (municipalities) ........... 106 12.3. Public procurement for the needs of state administration bodies (ministries) ....... 112 12.4. Public procurement for the needs of public institutions (educational institutions) 114 13. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................... 116 14. Annexes ..................................................................................................................... 122 Annex 1: Contracting authorities who during 2016 didn’t prepare and publish a Plan for public procurement