GOVERNMENT OF MONTENEGRO

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GOVERNMENT OF MONTENEGRO Public Procurement
Administration
MEASURING PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC
PROCUREMENT Presenters Mersad Z Mujevic, Head
of the Public Procurement Administration Sandra
Škataric, Head of Department for professional
development, training and international
cooperation in public procurement field
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M O N T E N E G R O
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Institutional framework
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PPL (OG of MNE, no. 42/11) overview
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Parties obliged to adhere to the PPL
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Parties obliged to adhere to the PPL (2)

• The list of covered parties (clasical and
  utilities sector) is published at the public
  procurement portal www.ujn.gov.me
• The contracting authorities are obliged to
  implement this Law even in the cases when they
  are not included in the List
• New element introduced with the new PPL is the
  opportunity for centralized purchases.

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3 Thresholds / 9 Procurement procedures
Value Scale I Value Scale II Value Scale III
Contract value 5.000 (Services / Supplies / Works) Contract value 5.000 25.000 (Services / Supplies) 5.000 50.000 (Works) Contract value 25.000 (Services / Supplies) 50.000 (Works)
9) Direct assignment 8 ) Shopping Method 1) open procedure 2) restricted procedure 3) negotiated procedure with prior publication of a contract notice 4) negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice 5) framework agreement 6) consulting services 7) contest

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Principles and Time limits

• Cost effective and efficient use of public funds
• Ensuring competition among the bidders
• Transparency
• Equality of bidders.
• Time limits
• Open procedure 37-22 days
• Restricted procedure (I stage 37 days, II stage
  22)
• Negotiated procedure 22 days.

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Competition in Public Procurement procedures

• Creating better business environments suitable
  for improving and development of the Small and
  Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
• Simplification of the Legal and Regulatory
  Frameworks
• Transparency of the Public Procurement System

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Competition in Public Procurement procedures

• Importance of the Interinstitutional cooperation
  
• Monitoring of the Public Procurement system
• Ethics in Public Procurement
• Prevention of Corrupt Practices

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EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESS OF MONTENEGRO

• Establishing the Working Group for preparing
  negotiations on Montenegros accession to the EU
  in the area of acquis communautaire relating to
  the Negotiation Chapter 5, Public Procurement
• Key institutions of the public procurement system
  - Public Procurement Administration(PPA) is one
  of them, make significant contribution to the
  process of the European Integration.
• Public Procurement policy to the European path

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EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESS OF MONTENEGRO

• EC Screening Report for Chapter 5Public
  Procurement adopted
• Negotiating position in the field of Public
  Procurement circulated to the Council on October
  14, 2013.
• The Third meeting of the Accession Conference
  with Montenegro at Ministerial level was held on
  December 18, 2013 in Brussels to open
  negotiations on Chapter 5 Public Procurement.

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PROJECT ACTIVITIES

• Within Multi-beneficiary IPA Project Training in
  Public Procurement in Western Balkans and Turkey
  Montenegro gained recognized European
  certificates and established national core team
  of 12 procurement trainers
• Implementation of the Project Strengthening of
  the Public Procurement System in Montenegro
  initiated on June 4, 2012 and terminated on Jule
  02, 2013
• Experts in the following areas Law, IT sector,
  Audit/Inspection and Public Procurement
  (altogether 4) were engaged in the implementation
  of the above mentioned project

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FURTHER PROJECT ACTIVITIES

• IPA 2014 Implementation of the System of
  Electronic Public Procurement in Montenegro
• Approximate value of the project - 1,5 million.

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Measuring performance

• The aims of PP regulation at international level
  are the following
• The opening up of domestic markets to foreign
  competition eradication of protectionism in
  PP
• Prohibition of discrimination on the basis of
  nationality
• Transparency
• The aim of value for money or efficiency are
  presumed as corollaries of the opening of the PP
  markets but are not the main objectives

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Introducing variables aimed at measuring relevant
performances of public procurement
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