Abuses in public procurement and the methodology of red flags
The Judicial Academy, with the support of the USAID Project for the Improvement of Public Procurement and the Bureau for the International Fight against Narcotics and Law Enforcement of the Embassy of the United States of America - INL, organized a two-day conference on May 29 and 30, 2024 in the hall of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce in Kraljevo training entitled: "Abuses in public procurement and methodology of red flags".
The training was intended for public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistants/associates and police officers from the area of Kragujevac appeal.
The training covered the following topics:
- Public procurement forensics,
- Potential abuses in the preparation phase for planning public procurement procedures and drafting and adopting the Public Procurement Plan,
- Potential abuses in the stage of implementation of procurement procedures to which the Law on Public Procurement does not apply,
- Potential abuses in the process of preparing tender documents, including technical specifications,
- Potential abuses in the conduct of the public procurement procedure, expert evaluation of bids with reference to legal protection,
- Pointing out potential abuses in the elements of the contract on public procurement, execution and changes to the contract,
- The application of general and special red flags on the Public Procurement Portal and the presentation of the Report intended for the police and prosecutor's office on the implementation of the Manual for the application of risk assessment methodology in public procurement,
- Using the available filters on the Portal and applying the risk matrix - practical work,
- Using data from the Portal when acting on criminal reports - examples of monitoring cases - practical work.
The lecturers were:
- Professor Dr. Marko Špiler, consultant of USAID's Project for the Improvement of Public Procurement,
- Daliborka Srećkov, consultant of USAID's Public Procurement Improvement Project.