Subject: Law
Year: 2021
Type: Article
Type: PeerReviewed
Title: Corruption risk in implementing urgent public procurement during COVID -19 pandemia in R. North Macedonia
Author: Rogleva, Aleksandra
Author: Doneva, Natasa
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
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Relation: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/29154/
Identifier: oai:eprints.ugd.edu.mk:29154
Identifier: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/29154/1/Doneva%20Rogleva.pdfIdentifier: 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
