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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
The Ministry of Interior spent milions of euros over the plan
Institute Alternative’s analysis on implementation of the new Public Procurement Law The Royal Capital of Cetinje amended its 2020 Public Procurement Plan as many as 18 times and the Municipality of Ulcinj executed only 7% of its public procurement budget in 2019. Those are just some of the examples of poor planning that Institute Alternative…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Initiative: Increase Transparency of the Government’s work
It will soon be a month since we wrote to the Government and called for greater transparency in the work through three concrete steps regarding the availability of information on the work and decision-making of the Government and its working bodies. We have not yet received the answer or noticed a change in practice. It…
What has the new Public Procurement Law brought us?
The new Law on Public Procurement has brought obligations and more work to contracting authorities, has made procedures easier for the bidders and improved transparency and competitiveness of public procurement procedures. This is stated by contracting authorities that participated in the meeting organised by Institute Alternative on the occasion of presenting the preliminary findings on…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
Intensify and Improve the Work of Parliamentary Committees
Only two of the 14 parliamentary committees adopted work plans for this year during first quarter, while two committees have not held a single session since their constitution in mid-December last year. According to the information available on the website of the Parliament, only the Committee on International Relations and Emigrants has adopted work plan…
Defence and security procurement’s ID
It is difficult to improve the practice in the Montenegrin public procurement system when the “rules of the game” keep changing. The penultimate day of 2019 brought the new Public Procurement Law (PPL), which introduced a number of new rules, along with a timeline of only six months for the players to master those. The…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Procurement planning did not unfold “according to the plan”
In practice, public procurement planning is meaningless, especially at the local level, by multiple and unexplained changes of public procurement plans, which results in spending slightly more than half of the planned expenditures for these purposes on an annual basis. A large number of contracting authorities are waiting for the Budget Law so that they…