Specialized Training Program for Public Procurement in Kosovo - Session I

From 1 to 2 April 2016, Kosovo Judicial Institute, with the support of GIZ, has conducted training "Specialized Training Program for Public Procurement in Kosovo - Session I".

This training session has intended the elaboration of positive legislation, development of the country’s judges and prosecutors knowledge about the procedures and phases of public procurement and identifying the indicators of corruption related to public procurement.

Initially, within this training session there was treated primary and secondary legislation that regulates this area, legislative changes, public procurement procedures and functioning mode of the electronic public procurement platform. In this context, there were elaborated rules and technical specifications, tender dossier, drafting of the tender dossier, evaluation process of a tender as well as notification, signing and execution of public contracts.

Furthermore, the training was focused on the elaboration of corruption schemes and the problems related to fraud, bid-fixing schemes and the factors that affect the appearance of these criminal acts of corruption in public procurement.

During the final phase of this session, there were discussed the investigation’s planning, the content of the investigation plan, prosecution, identification of sources of information and the importance in creating of an investigation structure.

The beneficiaries of this training were judges and prosecutors of basic and appellate level.