The National Assembly has adopted at first reading amendments to the Public Procurement Act envisaging a 10% rise in the order value needed for a procedure for public procurement to be held. The bill foresees additional provisions to the existing ones, allowing competition for public procurement to be carried out only between specialized enterprises and cooperatives of disabled people.
The changes in the law introduce the requirements for public procurement of the European directives in the field of construction, supplies and services for the military and the security sector. Public procurement in the defense and security field will be held through a limited procedure or negotiations with advanced notice publication. Negotiations, without advanced notice publication, could be held only on the basis of preliminary determined and listed in detail conditions.