Winning Public Procurement Contracts in Serbia: Manual

By Slavica Joković

This eBook analyses public procurement opportunities, rules and procedures in Serbia, with particular reference to the new legislative framework. It gives a review of some key explanations that bidders should also keep in mind in order to win public contracts.
This manual is an indispensable tool for all interested in winning public procurement contracts in Serbia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9788690233724

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1. Introduction

The new Law on Public Procurement in Serbia was adopted in December 2012 and entered into force in April 2013.

This Law regulates: public procurement planning, requirements, procedures, centralization, manner of recording data and delivering reports; afterwards, public procurement in the areas of water management, energy, transport and postal services, as well as in the area of defence and security. It establishes competences and methods of work of the Public Procurement Office and the Republic Commission for the Protection of Rights in Public Procurement Procedures. According to the new Public Procurement Law, the Public Procurement Office is the key institution in the public procurement system.

The new Law on Public Procurement further harmonised national public procurement regulatory framework with the relevant EU Directives and significant progress has been made from this point of view. This Law introduced some substantive changes as follows: common procurement vocabulary (CPV), environmental standards, energy efficiency standards, procurement in the field of defence and security, as well as the new procurement procedures and techniques, such as competitive dialogue procedure, qualification procedure, framework agreement, dynamic purchasing system.

The Public Procurement Law introduced certain new provisions aimed at increasing transparency in public procurement and thus preventing corruption, namely, procurement plans and Procurement Portal. All public procurement notices must be published on the Procurement Portal, including all low-value contracts.

Concerning the principle of equality of bidders, this Law stipulates that contracting authorities shall ensure equality of all bidders in all phases of public procurement procedure and may not impose conditions that would constitute national, territorial, subject-matter or personal discrimination among bidders.

Although the new Law on public procurement was a step forward in compliance between national legislation and EU standards, there is need for further harmonisation with the new Directives in this areas (namely, Directive 2014/24/EU¹ and Directive