COVID-19 effect on public procurement and its performance in the EU region

Abstract

There is no area of life that coronavirus disease would not have been effected by, not without the field of public procurement. Besides the emergency situation, governments need to secure supply of essential goods and services, not only related to health care, but also in order to maintain public services and take care of wellbeing. Citizens’ expectations towards the performance of public procurement (efficiency, effectiveness and economical) meanwhile did not change, and are at least on the same level as pre-COVID”. The aim of this study is to evaluate the high level general impact of Covid19 on public procurement and its performance. The outcome of the study is varied. There is no significant change in the total figures of the issued notices, also no change in the issuing authorities, so general picture shows stable trend. Indicators of evaluating the performance, include using less economical tenders type increase, which can lead to performance loss, but meanwhile indications of using the most economic tender criteria has been increased, which indicate better performance.