One in Two Public Procurements in Serbia Exempt from Legal Procedures

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Since the beginning of this year, public procurements with a total value of EUR6.5 billion have been awarded in Serbia through slightly more than 400,000 contracts, with 57 percent of them exempt from the standard rules defined in the Law on Public Procurement, it was announced on Oct. 20.

According to Open Dana portal, about 40 percent of procurement procedures were conducted through open tenders on the electronic public procurement system, used for procurements worth up to EUR150,000 and works up to half a million euros.

In 2024, there were 5,308 public procurement contracting entities in Serbia, while their number increased to 5,354 last year.

So far this year, 4,616 contracting entities have been registered, according to data from business platform CompanyWall.