Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Transparency Anti-Corruption Center Reveals Serious Problems In Arme

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Transparency Anti-Corruption Center Reveals Serious Problems In Arme

    TRANSPARENCY ANTI-CORRUPTION CENTER REVEALS SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS

    /ARKA/
    30 October, 2012
    YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, October 30. / ARKA /. Transparency International
    Anti-Corruption Center has revealed a string of serious problems in
    Armenia's procurements administered by various government agencies,
    Varuzhan Hoktanyan, the executive director of the Armenian office of
    the Center for Regional Development and Transparency International,
    said today when presenting the preliminary findings of a study it
    conducted late last and this year.

    "Together wit the Open Society Foundations - Armenia we studied
    government procurements from 2011 November to October 20 this year.

    The results showed that this area is not perfect", he said.

    An expert of the Anti-Corruption Center, Artak Manukyan, said the
    monitoring has revealed the unavailability of information and lack
    of transparency on the official website of the Ministry of Finance
    at gnumner.am and on the e-gov.am/transparent.

    "For example, many sections on both websites were not updated since
    2011, including reports on procurements and data about purchases
    from one person", he said. Manukyan also named lack of involvement
    of public organizations as another flaw in the procurement system.

    According to Manukyan, that the procurement system is imperfect is
    evidenced by the reduction in the percentage of satisfied complaints
    from 73.7% in 2011 to 47.4% in 2012.

    Manukyan mentioned also a low level of awareness among economic
    entities. He said only 690 companies of 140,000 across the country are
    registered on the electronic site of the Center to Support Procurement
    (armeps.am), which make only 0.49% of all companies.

    "This suggests that the private sector is either not aware of
    e-procurement system, or does not give it particular importance ",
    he said.

    He said the revealed problems in the procurement system do not
    stem from imperfect law. According to him, they indicate that some
    government agencies "are unable to implement what is provided by law."

    During an emergency meeting with top government officials in September
    President Serzh Sargsyan berated the government for widespread bribery
    and nepotism in state procurements. Sargsyan cited the findings of
    an inquiry conducted by the presidential Oversight Service, which
    showed that contracts were awarded to private firms in violation of
    the law.-0-




    From: A. Papazian
Working...
X