MOVEMENT FOL MONITORS THE PROCUREMENT IN THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Prishtina, 23 May 2011 – Minister of Public Administration, Mr. Mahir Yagcilar, and executive director of the Movement “FOL,” Mr.. Ramadan Ilazi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the MPA and the Movement “FOL” that has to do with observation and monitoring of procurement procedures.

This action is in order to promote transparency in the process of awarding public contracts, procurement procedures and tendering, in accordance with the Law on Access to Public Documents nr.03/L-215 and Article 7 of the Public Procurement Law No.03/L-241, which aims to prevent fraud, corruption and conflict of interest.

With this memorandum, MPA and Movement “FOL” will be part of monitoring the tendering procedures in all phases of the procedure, especially in the opening and evaluation of bids, providing full and direct access to all tender documents, as allowed by legal provisions. It is a step of the Government / Ministry towards transparency of institutional work, but also in fighting negative phenomena.