One of the contracts targets consultancy and marketing services needed to carry out a study regarding the problems faced by contracting authorities that receive European structural funds in the field of public procurement. The contract is estimated at RON1.03 million and will run for two months upon awarding.
A second contract targets services needed to draft technical specifications for standard assignment documentation targeting Management Authorities. The contract is estimated at RON1.24 million and will run for six months upon awarding.
Another contract targets consultancy services needed to draft a guide to good practice in the sector of public procurement for EU-funded projects. The contract is estimated at RON1.7 million and will run for 11 months.
Projects will be financed from EU funds via the “Technical Assistance” Operational Program.
Contracts will be awarded through open tender to the lowest bidder.
Late October this year, the European Commission informed Romanian authorities about its decision to pre-suspend payment for three Romanian EU-funded programs, for transport, regional development and economic competitiveness, due to irregularities in the fund management system.
Following checkups carried out in 2010 and 2011, the European Commission identified a series of irregularities in the Romanian structural fund management system and stopped payments made through the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund in mid-2011.
In December 2011, the EC resumed payments after Romania pledged it would remove public procurement problems. Rumanian authorities had until mid-2012 to prove that the country’s EU fund management system worked properly. (EUR1=RON4.5219)