RISK MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROCESS. PARTICULARITIES AND SOLUTIONS FOR OPTIMIZING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN ROMANIA IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGENCY CAUSED BY THE COVID-19 CRISIS

Costel Ceocea,Raluca Alexandra Ceocea,Vasile Mihălaș,Adrian Vatamaniuc

doi:10.29358/sceco.v0i31.464

Abstract

Public procurement involves adequate risk management, specific to the procurement portfolio established at the level of the organization. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, in accordance with the regulated framework established at the level of public institutions from Romania, decisions made at the level of contracting authorities must be based on risk management tools and mechanisms. These tools and mechanisms are defined on the basis of analyses of public procurement processes, carried out in compliance with the legal framework applicable at both European and national level. The new context created at the level of the contracting authorities in Romania, with the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, forced the management factors to adopt emergency decisions, to manage new risks and to implement rapid changes in public procurement processes, in the context of high uncertainty. This paper aims at analyzing the way decisions are made at the level of contracting authorities in Romania, in order to identify specific risk management mechanisms, based on the assessment and anticipation of risks related to public procurement organized in an matter of emergency.<div id="mouseposition-extension-element-full-container" style="position: fixed; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; pointer-events: none; z-index: 2147483647; font-weight: 400;"> </div><div id="mouseposition-extension-element-full-container" style="position: fixed; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; pointer-events: none; z-index: 2147483647; font-weight: 400;"> </div><div id="mouseposition-extension-element-full-container" style="position: fixed; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; pointer-events: none; z-index: 2147483647; font-weight: 400;"> </div><div id="mouseposition-extension-element-full-container" style="position: fixed; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; pointer-events: none; z-index: 2147483647; font-weight: 400;"> </div>

Highlights

The purpose of Public Procurement is to award contracts for supply, service or works under conditions of economic and social efficiency1, in accordance with the principles and procedures set by the applicable legal framework of these activities, to economic operators qualified for the optimal execution of such contracts.RISK MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROCESS
Risk and risk management are generally seen as a function assigned to certain categories of specialists, achieving the objectives set at the level of public institutions requires the adoption of a strategy based on risk management measures and mechanisms, by involving all officials responsible for both management processes as well as the execution processes within the public organization, oriented towards the adoption of decisions that have the capacity to diminish the effects of some events that can negatively affect the degree of achievement of these objectives and implicitly the beneficiaries of these decisions: citizens
In order to ensure the achievement of the institutional objectives set at the level of contracting authorities, it is necessary to adopt an adequate risk management, which should be the basis for decisions related to public procurement processes to ensure the optimal allocation of the portfolio of public procurement contracts

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Introduction

The purpose of Public Procurement is to award contracts for supply, service or works under conditions of economic and social efficiency, in accordance with the principles and procedures set by the applicable legal framework of these activities, to economic operators qualified for the optimal execution of such contracts.RISK MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROCESS. PARTICULARITIES AND SOLUTIONS FOR OPTIMIZING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN ROMANIA IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGENCY CAUSED BY THE COVID-19 CRISIS The award of these public procurement contracts shall ensure the necessary resources to carry out the activities and achieve the objectives set at the level of public institutions, which aim to achieve/satisfy a general interest. In order to ensure the achievement of the institutional objectives set at the level of contracting authorities, it is necessary to adopt an adequate risk management, which should be the basis for decisions related to public procurement processes to ensure the optimal allocation of the portfolio of public procurement contracts. Services or works are provided, at the qualitative, quantitative level

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