Public procurement in many countries are used as a tool for improving efficiency of the process of products and services procurement as well as a tool for making cost savings in the public sector. Advantages of e-procurement are strengthening transparency, efficiency, healthy competition and provide best values for the invested money. Switch from paper based procurement to e-procurement increases service quality of contracting authorities and sets up the adequate system of announcing, awarding and managing contracts.

 

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, e-procurement system was established late 2014, but it is still in the early stage of development. On the e-procurement portal in BiH e-announcements about public procurements are available but there is still no conditions to develop further options of the e-procurement portal.

Aim of this expert debate is to point at the main obstacles in the development process of e-procurement in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as to present possible solutions at this stage of development. At the expert debate recommendations for the improvements of the e-procurement system will be presented which came out as the results of the study written by Analitika Center for Social Research.

 

Expert debate program can be downloaded HERE.

 

Expert debate is organized within the project Open Public Procurement in Bosnia and Herzegovina jointly implemented by the Centre for Investigative Reporting (CIN),  Analitika - Centre for Social Research, and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (CPI). The Project is financed by the European Union.