Nezavisne novine: Complete procedure of public procurements, from announcing the tender until the end of procedure, lasts from four to six months, which brings the public companies in a discriminative position, and losses are being bided not only by companies, but also the whole society, claims Bećarević, director of the "BH gas".
"We have warned on this problem many times, but the changes and amendments to the Law on public procurements of BiH, unfortunately, have not passed and this is why we are still facing the same old problems which the private companies do not have to face with", he claims.
Natalija Popadić, the Associate for informing of the "Putevi RS" ("Roads of the RS"), has said that their company faces big problems in the procedure of public procurements and claims that the Law has stipulated a very complicated and very often a long procedure. They are also being rankled by complaints and deadlines.
"The parties which after opening the arrived proposals are not satisfied by results, have a right to complain, and a complaint blocks implementation of public procurement, which usually lasts too long. This relates to the public companies in procedure of public procurements, which the private companies do not deal with, and which are directly arranging the work", Popadić has said.
She has reminded that a preparation of draft of the changes and amendments to the Law on Public Procurements of BiH is currently in process, and that the "Putevi RS" has submitted the proposal.
"If they get adopted and inserted, they will significantly ease the current very complicated procedure of public procurements", she has said. Bećarević says that it is inadmissible that the deadlines of solving one complaint last 45 days, which is even longer than at the courts.
"For the companies in information technologies, this is being especially problematic. Their equipment is being changed very often and they often need to go into the procedure of procurements. This is totally inadmissible", he says.
In the Agency for Public Procurements of BiH they say that the procedure of public procurements is not complicated, and that it is the same for all countries of the EU.
They also say that they have noticed the problems in procedures and that all contracting authorities are not preparing public procurements on time, they are being late with procedures, they ask for non based exemptions and concessions without notifying the announcement.
"Also, the Agency has noticed that the market in BiH is not developed enough, and that on such market the contracting authorities often set too sharp qualification conditions which limit concurrency on market", has been said by Đinita Fočo, director of the Agency.
She believes that it is necessary to motivate the economic subjects to participate in public procurements, and educate the contracting authorities in a sense of setting the qualification conditions.