About us

The Public Procurement Bureau was established as a state administration body within the Ministry of Finance, pursuant to the Law on Public Procurement of the Republic of Macedonia.

The Public Procurement Bureau is a central level institution that deals with public procurement system development by ensuring legality, rationality, efficiency and transparency in public procurement execution and encouragement of competition and equality of bidders in public procurement procedures.

The Bureau carries out the following tasks:

• initiate proposals to the Ministry of Finance for adopting legal and other acts in the area of public procurement;

• monitor and analyze implementation of the laws and other public procurement regulations, public procurement system functioning, and shall initiate modifications for improving the public procurement system;

• provide opinions regarding the provisions and the enforcement of this law;

• advise and/or assist the procuring entities;

• prepare standard tender documentation and standard forms for open and restricted invitation and for negotiated procedure;

• keep, maintain and update single registry and sub-registry on the procurement of the Procurers, and shall make it publicly available through the public procurement website;

• when detecting irregularities in the implementation of the public procurement, undertake measures, immediately informing the Government and the Minister of Finance thereof;

• determine minimum requirements for professional qualifications for the persons performing professional activities for public procurement;

• organize and conduct training for civil servants and other competent persons with respect to public procurement, according to previously adopted programme;

• cooperate with international institutions and other foreign entities with respect to the activities related to public procurement system development;

• realize international cooperation regarding public procurement system and plan and coordinate foreign technical assistance in the area of public procurement;

• submit annual reports to the Government on its activities in implementation of the public procurement system and on the functioning of the public procurement system;

• give guidelines and prepare manuals and comments on the public procurement rules and publish bulletin;

• appoint the expert who will check the regularity of the public procurement procedure, upon request by the bidder, for a value exceeding the denar equivalent of EUR 30,000;

• perform other operations pursuant to this law.