The monitoring of the integrity of public procurement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is being carried out by a coalition of NGOs at the initiative of the Open Society Fund of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has entered its second year. The name of the initiative “Making public procurement transparent” emphasizes the clear intention of the organizations involved to raise the level of transparency and accountability in the implementation of public procurement procedures in BiH to a significantly higher level than the current one. In the first period of monitoring, the focus of the activities was on the integrity of contracting authorities, i.e. identifying patterns of behavior of these institutions in the public procurement segment. In the second period of monitoring, the findings of which are presented in this study, the focus was expanded to include patterns of behavior of the bidders themselves, with the continuation of monitoring activities of contracting authorities. The monitoring itself was a process in which all participating organizations (Enterprise Development Agency – Eda, Center for Investigative Journalism, Transparency International in BiH and the Tender Association) actively participated, with the active coordination of the Open Society Fund of BiH.


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Dvije strane medalje: Integritet ugovornih organa i ponuđača u javnim nabavkama

Monitoring integriteta javnih nabavki koji u Bosni i Hercegovini provodi koalicija nevladinih organizacija na inicijativu Fonda otvorenog društva Bosne i Hercegovine, navršio je u drugu godinu. Naziv inicijative „Da javne nabavke postanu javne“ naglašava jasnu namjeru uključenih organizacija da se nivo transparentnosti i odgovornosti u provođenju postupaka javnih nabavki u BiH, podigne na znatno viši nivo u odnosu na postojeći. U prvom periodu provođenje monitoringa, fokus aktivnosti je bio na integritetu ugovornih organa, odnosno uočavanju obrazaca ponašanja ovih institucija u segmentu javnih nabavki. U drugom periodu monitoringa, čiji nalazi su predstavljeni ovom studijom, fokus je proširen i na obrasce ponašanja samih ponuđača, uz nastavak aktivnosti monitoringa ugovornih organa. Sam monitoring je predstavljao proces u kojem su aktivno učestvovale sve organizacije učesnice (Agencija za razvoj preduzeća – Eda, Centar za istraživačno novinarstvo, Transparency International u BiH i Udruženje Tender), uz aktivnu koordinaciju Fonda otvorenog društva BiH.