Accountable public finances
The goal of the program is to achieve more accountable, transparent and rational management of public finances. The focus of the program is on further development of external (state) audit, internal controls in the public sector as well as the parliamentary oversight over the budget. Within this program, special attention is given to the public procurements, public-private partnerships and concessions.
Public Enterprises: A Task for Budgetary Inspection
23. 02. 2024.
On July 21, 2023, Institute Alternative submitted an initiative for the inspection of companies owned by the state and local government units regarding the violation of the Law on Salaries of Employees in the Public Sector. Article 10 of the Law on Salaries of Employees in the Public Sector stipulates that companies owned by the…
IA meetings with prosecutors on corruption in public procurement
28. 01. 2024.
Institute Alternative (IA) held a series of closed meetings with representatives of the prosecution, where we discussed the issues and actions of the prosecution in cases related to corruption in public procurement. Over the past months, we met with representatives of the Special State Prosecutor’s Office, and the basic state prosecutor’s offices in Podgorica and…
Direct and without competition – Procurement in public enterprises
15. 01. 2024.
State-owned enterprises are violating the Public Procurement Law by exceeding the limits on the use of less transparent procedures for the same procurement subject, as shown by the research of the Institute Alternative on the use of direct agreements during 2022. The Public Procurement Law does not limit the use of the direct negotiation mechanism,…
Phantom savings in the budget for the year 2024
13. 12. 2023.
Nearly a month after the legal deadline, the Government has submitted the budget proposal to the Parliament – some of our key observations are as follows (originally published in an article for the daily newspaper Vijesti). Phantom Savings Savings or rationalizations are absent in both the budget rebalances for the year 2023 and the…
Results: Call for Proposals ‘SOEs under CSO watch’
01. 12. 2023.
IA will support five civil society organisations to implement projects and initiatives aimed at contributing to the improvement of the environment for monitoring public enterprises. As part of the project “Civil Society for Better, Effective, Sustainable and Transparent State-Owned Enterprises (BEST SOEs)”, IA aims to contribute to the fight against corruption through efficient oversight of…
Direct and without control – Simple procurement up to 5000 EUR
29. 11. 2023.
The research for the year 2022 has revealed irregularities in the use of the direct contract procurement. Our findings showed that individual procurement exceed the amount of 5,000 euros excluding VAT; contracting authorities do not take into account the annual estimation of public procurement subject, and for certain subject that amount reaches over 40,000 euros.…
