Government procurement accounts for a large part of public expenditures and enables governments to deliver public services. Sound procurement rules and procedures facilitate delivering goods, works and services in a right quantity and appropriate quality in due time and under suitable contractual conditions.
Given the large volume of money involved and increasingly complex set of contractual arrangements, the public procurement is identified as one of the most corruption-prone areas of the economy. Citizens, as the end-users of goods, works and services provided by the government can play an important role in monitoring public procurement processes to make sure they are conducted in an efficient and transparent manner ensuring best value for money, while the collaborative engagement of CSOs with government serves to improve performance and quality of delivery.