Workshop in Public Procurement

The workshop topic was “The most common challenges faced by bidders and contracting authorities in public procurement”.

The lecturers at the workshop were Mr. Anton Tomljanović and Mr. Zoran Vuić from the Ministry of Economy.

During the first two hours of the workshop, Mr. Tomljanović presented topics that included:

• Dialogue between contracting authorities and economic operators – how to improve communication and reduce the number of disputes.
• Implementation of administrative supervision (the number of submissions they receive, on which topics and from whom, and how often they act ex officio).
• Misdemeanor protection (whether they initiate proceedings and, if so, the most common reasons; if not, what prevents them, etc.).
• The most common grounds for complaints and annulments of procedures – analysis of practice and trends.
• Rights and obligations of bidders in the legal protection procedure – practical advice.

In the second two hours, Mr. Vuić presented the most frequent inquiriessubmitted by:

• Bidders to the Public Procurement Policy Directorate at the Ministry of Economy and the corresponding responses.
• Contracting Authorities to the Public Procurement Policy Directorate at the Ministry of Economy and the corresponding responses.

The workshop was interactive, with AmCham members actively participating by asking practical questions, and representatives of the Ministry of Economy providing concrete answers.