In order to encourage public officials to report corruption in public procurements in July we organized dissemination of awareness raising materials in eight national and local state institutions among which are National Parliament, Supreme Court and Supreme State prosecutor. The materials contained information on main anticorruption legal provisions from the Law on public procurements and information on SOS line for reporting corruption to MANS.
In 2010 we collected nearly 2000 decisions on awarding public contracts, submitted about 70 FOI requests and obtained information in 65 cases. Based on almost 9000 collected decisions on awarding tenders collected from 2008 to 2010, we developed case studies on cooperation of state institutions with same companies through awarding them the contracts of high values.
We discovered that the Municipality of Bar and the Directorate for Maritime Safety are signing public procurement contracts with companies connected to the local and state officials for indefinite period of time and without precise amounts of money. Even though the Law was breached in both cases and we submitted them to the prosecution, we do not have information on activities they conducted.
