Corruption risk in implementing urgent public procurement during COVID -19 pandemia in R. North Macedonia

Rogleva, Aleksandra and Doneva, Natasa (2021) Corruption risk in implementing urgent public procurement during COVID -19 pandemia in R. North Macedonia. Collection of Papers from online International Academic Conference of PhD. Students and Young Researchers. pp. 89-99. ISSN 978-80-7160-618-5

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Abstract

Public procurement as an instrument by which central and local government
institutions procure goods, services or works, by their nature are one of the most serious financial
interactions in the public sector and are therefore inevitably accompanied by corruption risks. These
risks have significantly increased in the implementation of public procurement in a crisis situation
caused by the pandemic of Covid – 19, which in the past period has made huge changes in the overall
way of social life. Namely, with the emergence of the global health crisis, the need for procurement of
goods, services and works for preventing the spread of the disease was urgently imposed. That is
why the legal possibility for conducting public procurement by shortened and accelerated procedures
was used, but that increase the risk of illegal disposal of state money. This primarily refers to
negotiated public procurement procedures without prior publication of a notice, for reasons of extreme
urgency, which have emerged as a necessity in the spending of budget funds due to the general lack
of some of the most essential goods to deal with the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In
conditions of widespread corruption in public procurement, this situation is an additional problem,
because the facilitated and non-transparent procedure in which urgent public procurement is
conducted, increases the probability of budget transfers that are contrary to the spirit and goals of the
Law on Public Procurement.
Keywords: Covid - 19, public procurement, corruption, urgency, crisis, prevention

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Law
Divisions:	Faculty of Law
Depositing User:	Natasa Doneva
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2022 08:40
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2023 12:36
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/29154

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