GEL 40 Million Being Spent Without Tenders through Village Support Programme
Tbilisi. Due to the Transparency International Georgia GEL 40 Million Being Spent Without Tenders through Village Support Programme.
“The Village Support Programme has set a dangerous precedent of a blanket authorization of simplified procurement being issued for multiple procurements. In addition to contradicting the requirements of the law, this also directly contradicts the State Procurement Agency's publicly declared goal of reducing the share of simplified procurement in public procurement. The steps taken toward this goal have yielded impressive results in recent years: The share of simplified procurement in public procurement fell from 37% to 19% between 2016 and 2018. In this context, it is not clear why the State Procurement Agency has issued blanket authorization to spend all of the Village Support Programme's funds through simplified procurement”.
Source: transparency.ge
