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The Public Procurement Commission's annual report for 2025 highlights a high number of complaints and interventions in tendering procedures, highlighting ongoing weaknesses in the system. During the year, 1,197 complaints were registered, while 853 procedures were appealed by economic operators. Out of 1,152 complaints reviewed, in 291 cases, corrections were requested from the contracting authorities, while 56 tenders were cancelled due to violations, mainly in the bid evaluation phase....
Despite SPAK's crackdowns, tender affairs in public institutions seem to be continuing strongly.
The Public Procurement Commission has published its annual report for 2025, which highlights a high volume of complaints and a considerable number of interventions in tender procedures, raising questions about the functioning of the public procurement system in the country.
A total of 1,197 complaints were registered during the year, almost all of which, 1,188, were directly related to public tenders. In total, 853 procurement procedures were complained about, a high indicator that reflects the level of dissatisfaction of economic operators with the way the competitions were conducted.
The structure of complaints shows that the main problems are not only related to the documents, but especially to the most critical phase of the process. Around 62–63% of complaints are related to the evaluation of bids, while around 37% are related to the drafting of tender documents.
This distribution suggests that the biggest problem lies in the final decision-making and selection of the winner, one of the stages most susceptible to abuse.
Of the 1,152 complaints reviewed during the year, in 291 cases the Commission requested contracting authorities to make concrete changes to procedures.
This is a direct indication that in about a quarter of the cases reviewed, problems requiring correction were found.
Further, the data shows that the Commission has taken 1007 decisions, of which over half of the complaints were fully or partially accepted (599 cases), while 376 complaints were rejected.
However, the fact that a significant portion of complaints are rejected for procedural reasons (lack of documentation, deadlines, etc.) also indicates a formal barrier for economic operators.
One of the strongest indicators of problems in the system is the number of canceled procedures. According to the report, during 2025, 56 tenders were canceled after final decisions of the Public Procurement Commission.
Most of them, 41 procedures, were canceled due to problems in the bid evaluation phase, while 15 due to problems in the tender documents.
This further reinforces the tendency that it is precisely the evaluation phase that remains most problematic.
The institutional distribution of these cancellations shows that the problems are not isolated: 27 canceled procedures belong to local institutions, 15 to joint-stock companies with state capital, 12 to central institutions and 2 to independent institutions.
This suggests a widespread phenomenon at several levels of administration.
The report itself highlights repeated violations by contracting authorities. In some cases, institutions have continued procedures without waiting for the final decision of the PPC, while in other cases, technical specifications have been changed substantially during the process, affecting even the tender fund limit.
Also, cases have been identified where the division into lots was not justified or when operators were evaluated based on criteria that were not provided for in official documents.
In terms of institutional control, only 3 cases were referred to the prosecutor's office during the year, a relatively low number compared to the volumes of problems identified, which raises questions about the criminal prosecution of violations.
On the other hand, the report emphasizes that through the interventions, a saving of around 672 million lek has been achieved in the state budget, an indicator used by the institution to argue the positive effect of the interventions.
On critical reading, the data show a clear contrast: on the one hand, increased transparency and procedural efficiency, but on the other hand, a high number of complaints, interventions and cancellations that point to persistent structural problems in tenders. The fact that over 850 procedures have been appealed and hundreds of them require corrections or are canceled suggests that the violations are not sporadic cases, but part of a repeated practice. / Pamphlet
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