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Amendments to the RA Law on procurements adopted by the RA National Assembly in 2010 came into force from 1 January 2011. It was expected that the activities of the system will become more transparent.

In November 2011 ‘Transparency International Anti-corruption Centre’ NGO carried out monitoring of the state procurement system which led to conclusion that the system still remains less available and transparent.

Today during the press conference Artak Manukyan, procurement system expert of the NGO, mentioned that activities of Procurement Assistance Centre (PAC), procurement official website, e-procurement system and procurement made from one person were chosen as a target.

Studies show that PAC does not perform data analysis, i.e. it does not perform its functions. Moreover, procurements official website is not accessible and transparent and was not updated from August 2011.

‘This proves that the system continues operating inefficiently and index of 60 % of satisfied complains indicates that from time to time violation of rights takes place’ Artak Manukyan says.

The studies in electronic procurement showed that from 140 thousand economic entities only 690 are registered on the website, which is only 0, 49% out of total.

‘This obviously proves that the private sector is not aware of e-procurement system or does not consider it important. In addition, the website does not give opportunity to get statistical information of already made transactions’ the expert concludes.