02.24.2025

Law firm Guia Naghi si Partenerii (GNP) announces the promotion of Tudor Nacev as Partner tasked with coordinating the firm's Regulatory Pharma and Public Procurement Practice. more

09.13.2022

Law firm Dentons Romania has further strengthened its team in Bucharest with the addition of Oana Voda as Head of the Public Procurement Practice. more

04.09.2021

Alstom Transport, Spedition UMB and Sa & Pe Construct are the winners of the three largest public procurement contracts last year, when the top 20 such contracts were worth more than RON6.5 billion. more

08.23.2018

Romania's Transport Ministry seeks to speed up public procurement procedures for infrastructure projects to 2-4 months instead of over one year. more

12.02.2016

Farmexpert, one of the main pharmaceutical distributors, ranks first by the total value of contracts concluded online via the Electronic System for Public Procurement (SEAP), in a top five dominated more

09.16.2015

Nearly half of EU member states, including Romania, risk losing access to development funds worth hundreds of billions of euros unless they clean up public procurement contracts by the end of 2016, more

08.03.2015

Romanian Businessmen Association AOAR says that the new public procurement legislation is unclear, and calls for a public consultations period until September 30. more

07.30.2015

American Chamber of Commerce in Romania (AmCham) calls for a public consultations period of at least 30 days on the new public procurement legislation, from the ten days announced by the Finance more

07.07.2014

Romania's national integrity agency has awarded a RON30.41 million (EUR6.9 million) contract to a consortium consisting of Siveco, UTI Grup, SAP and Computer Sharing for software that wou more

10.29.2013

Contracting authorities last year awarded contracts worth a total of EUR15 billion through the electronic public procurement system (SEAP) - 103,911 contracts granted to a total of 9,268 companies, more

07.16.2013

Romanian President Traian Basescu has called for the reexamination of a government emergency ordinance amending public procurement laws, citing the need for systematic legislation in the field. more

06.30.2013

Romania has doubled the threshold on public services and product contracts awarded directly from EUR15,000 to EUR30,000 and raised the threshold on public works contracts awarded directly from more

06.21.2013

Romania’s Government plans to amend norms on public procurement to have the technical part of an offer assessed primarily instead of the lowest price. more

10.18.2012

Romania’ Government will double to EUR30,000 the threshold on public service, works and product contracts awarded directly, without public procurement auctions, in January 2013, Dan Vladescu, head more

10.04.2012

Romanian firms that submit bids in public procurement auctions and declare they are financially supported by a third party must give evidence of the latter’s commitment, according to a draft more

09.14.2012

Romania’s Government wants to ease price requirements in public procurement auctions and reduce the level below which an offer is considered “unusually low” from 85% to 70% of the estimated more

07.29.2012

Romania’s Government plans to double to EUR30,000 the threshold on public service, works and product contracts awarded directly, without public procurement auctions. more

01.23.2012

Romanian state-run natural gas pipeline operator Transgaz Medias (TGN.RO) plans to assign public procurement contracts worth 332.4 million lei (EUR76.6 million) in March, above the amount allocated in more

12.09.2011

Romanian state-run natural gas pipeline operator Transgaz Medias (TGN.RO) has awarded public procurement contracts worth 300.6 million lei (EUR69.2 million) in 2011, down 14.2% on the year, according more

12.02.2011

Romanian natural gas producer Romgaz Medias has awarded over 1,300 public procurement contracts worth 576.5 million lei (EUR132.4 million) in the first eleven months of 2011, largely for drilling more

10.21.2011

Public procurement contracts for products such as cooking oil and potatoes are mainly awarded to intermediaries and Romanian authorities end up paying 10%-37% more than producer prices, the antitrust more

10.13.2011

Checkups started recently by the Romanian Authority for Public Procurement Regulation and Monitoring (ANRMAP) show that only 49 of the 1,552 auction files which have been submitted over the past two more

09.23.2011

The Romanian Audit Authority must adopt the new regulations regarding public procurement, agreed upon with the European Commission, by the end of October, otherwise EU payments might be ceased for a more

09.16.2011

Romania's Finance Ministry is proposing a series of changes to public procurement procedure, with a view to eliminating blockage and red tape, and accelerating the absorption of structural funds, says more

09.15.2011

Romanian public institutions will be able to contract consultancy services for projects that have already been awarded, as well as loans to finance EU projects, through "accelerated" more