Procurement

Activity in China's manufacturing sector contracted for a fifth straight month in December, an official survey showed on Jan. 1, reinforcing fears the world's second-largest economy may be stuck in a protracted slowdown despite a flurry of stimulus measures. 

Industrial production - a measure of output in the manufacturing, utilities and mining sectors - rose 4.6 percent in October from the same month in 2014, and rose 0.1 percent in October from September, the report said.      
Industrial production jumped 2.8 percent in September, year-on-year.

Turkey has reached "certain clarity" on the decision for a tender on its long-range missile defense system, Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) head ?smail Demir has said.

"We are reviewing several parameters. We want to make a decision without a further extension," he said, speaking at a Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) panel on Oct. 26.

GR Engineering Services has won a $7 million contract in Greece to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services to Hellas Gold, a subsidiary of the Eldorado Gold Corporation.

Turkey?s carmaker Karsan has said it took a proposal request for a prototype in a tender for a bid to design the United States Postal Service (USPS) new delivery vehicles, in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP). 

Bulgaria's parliamentary regional policy and local self-government committee adopted at first reading the new Public Procurement Act.

The bill was approved on Wednesday by the legal affairs committee, the European affairs committee, the budget and finance committee and the economic policy committee of the Bulgarian Parliament, according to reports of investor.bg.

With parliamentary elections scheduled for Nov. 1 and defense bureaucracy at a near standstill, some military planners are questioning the wisdom of a controversial Turkish defense contract for the construction of the country's first long-range air and anti-missile defense system.

A new wave of violence in Turkey's Kurdish conflict has prompted Turkey's military and defense procurement authorities to shop for a batch of reconnaissance aircraft which they hope will augment the military's fight against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets.

Five companies have shown interest in consulting the Energy Ministry on the Bulgaria-Serbia gas grid interconnector project.

A new report, presented on Wednesday, argues that during the monitoring period the Public Procurement Commission uncovered hundreds of legal breaches by officials in hundreds of cases but imposed only a single administrative fine and did not refer any cases to the prosecutor's office.