<p><a href="images/election tenders.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="images/election tenders.png" border="0" width="300" height="165" style="float: left; margin: 0px 5px; border: 0px;" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">Today, June 10, 2024, the Center for Civil Communications published the <a href="images/election tenders.pdf" target="_blank">Elections and Public Procurement Research</a>. The research showed that:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- Tender procedures organized by SEC and related to this year’s joint presidential and parliamentary elections have costed by 767 thousand EUR more than the sum of all tenders for the same type of elections held individually in 2019 and 2020.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- Out-of-country voting was more expensive than services for printing all voter ballots.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- High 41% of election-related public procurement contracts were awarded by SEC under negotiating procedures without previously announced procurement notice. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">- In the years when parliamentary elections are held, public procurements in the country reach record-high levels. This year’s elections were anticipated in public procurements organized last year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">For more information, please contact the Center for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at center@ccc.org.mk.</span></p>