Republic of Albania : Final Country Procurement Assessment Report, Volume 2
The World Bank undertakes assessments of the procurement environment, covering both public and private sectors, in borrowing member countries on a systematic basis. The objective of this assessment is to provide useful feedback to Borrowers regardi...
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| Format: | Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR) |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/7119301/albania-country-procurement-assessment-report-vol-2-2 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14485 |
| Summary: | The World Bank undertakes assessments of
the procurement environment, covering both public and
private sectors, in borrowing member countries on a
systematic basis. The objective of this assessment is to
provide useful feedback to Borrowers regarding the strengths
and weaknesses of their public procurement systems. This
enables member countries of the Bank to improve the
transparency of their procurement processes and to develop
an Action Plan to enhance their capacity to conduct public
procurement efficiently. A further important objective is to
determine the compatibility of national procurement
practices with the principles of economy and efficiency and
with international procurement law and best practice. The
findings and recommendations of this report not only help
the Bank to ensure that sound procurement practices are
followed in projects which the Bank finances, but also
enable Borrowers to enhance the efficiency of their public
spending. The report makes these key recommendations:
Strengthen the position of Open Tendering as the basic
method of public procurement by bolstering the provisions in
the LPP against breaking down procurement requirements into
smaller values, providing fewer exceptions to the OT method
and making all applications of procurement methods other
than OT, above specified financial thresholds, subject to
prior waiver of the Public Procurement Agency (PPA). .
Clarify the conditions for use of restrictive procurement
methods, including Restricted Tendering and Request for
Quotations and strengthen the requirements for the minimum
number of bids which procuring entities must obtain.
Increase the use of the Request for Proposals (RFP) method
for the procurement of consultants' services by
removing the threshold that currently applies to it. More
effectively control the current over-use of the Direct
Procurement method by tightening the conditions for its use
in the Law on Public Procurement (LPP) and by making all
uses of this method subject to prior waiver by the PPA. |
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