Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VI. Public Policy Analysis Development Author(s) Mihaela Victorita Carausan National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest Romania Dobre Anca, Title Monitoring and Evaluation – Challenges for the Romanian Public Procurement System File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Mihaela Victorita Carausan Abstract Premises: Romania has undergone significant restructuring of its public procurement system since 2016 and the process is in full swing. In 2015, under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance a specialized institution was created – National Authority for Public Procurement which establish and implement the legal and procedural provisions, and monitor the efficient functioning of the public procurement system. Even if, various national and European assessments pointed out that the greatest weakness of the public procurement is the administrative capacity to monitor and evaluate only few reports have been done on the role of the monitoring and evaluation of public contracts.The paper focuses more on the results of the public procurement system – the contract, and less on the procurement procedure. Research question and methodology: We started the research from the hypothesis that public administrators do not know which are the steps that Romania should follow to introduce monitoring and evaluation of public procurement contracts. Even if monitoring and evaluation of public contracts are the main points in the Romanian Strategy of Public Procurement little has been done, in this way. The paper will tackle mainly this issue and based on the comparative and quantitative analyses we aim to: - review the monitoring and evaluation system of the National Authority for Public Procurement; - investigate the methods, criteria that are used, at nationaland institutional levels, to measure the “performance” of the public procurement contracts; - identify indicators necessary to be included in the public contracts; - present some conclusions drawn from cases presented at the National Council for Solving Complaints; - offer future guiding ideas of monitoring and evaluation of public contracts, to see what works, what does not, and the reason why. The quantitative analysis will help us to find out when and how the National Authority for Public Procurement had and should have to interfere in public procurement procedure for the rule of law. Also, based on a survey addressed to public procurement professionals will help us to reveal: (1) the awareness of the importance of the monitoring and evaluation; (2) the influence of monitoring and evaluation on the performance of public procurement contracts; (3) the impact of the National Authority and the National Council’s decisions on the public contracts; (4) the possible indicators which could be used in monitoring and evaluation of contracts. Furthermore, we will also do a comparative analysis on how EU important regulations were transposed in the national systems and implemented by the public procurement actors.
