Procurement

Turkey's headline Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing industry eased to 49.2 in April, down from 49.4 in March, indicating a second successive monthly moderation in the health of the sector, the survey conducted jointy by S&P Global and the Istanbul Chamber of Industry (İSO) have shown.

Any figure greater than 50 indicates overall improvement of the sector.

Ljubljana – The Court of Audit has examined drug procurement practices in three public pharmacy chains to find that medicine procurement in the country is still in disarray and public pharmacies keep flouting public procurement rules.

The court issued an adverse opinion to Pomurske Lekarne, Lekarna Velenje and Lekarna Sevnica after examining their drug purchasing practices in 2020.

 Turkish factory activity stayed in the positive territory for the sixth month in a row, but a sharp increase in costs pushed output price rises to their fastest pace on record, a key survey showed on Dec. 1. 

Turkey's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector stood at 51.2 in October, according to fresh figures released on Nov. 1.

The business growth in the Eurozone stayed on the positive side but has slowed in September as rising prices of raw materials were coupled by disturbances in supply to manufacturers. The pressure from inflation prompted demand, issues which are likely to continue, Reuters reported.

Ljubljana – The National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) has decided to outsource some of the contact tracing to a private company, City Connect. The six-month deal is worth almost EUR 2.3 million, or EUR 1.86 million without VAT, the business newspaper Finance reported on Monday.

An ‘invisible had’ was delaying procedures of the procurement by Greece of the powerful 5th Gen aircraft

Turkey's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector dropped to 50.4 in April, a monthly business survey revealed on May 3. 

The PMI decreased by 2.2 points from 52.6 in March, according to the report by the Istanbul Chamber of Industry prepared in collaboration with London-based global data firm IHS Markit.

The National Agency for Integrity (ANI), in the first quarter of 2021, issued six integrity warnings to prevent conflicts of interest in connection with public procurement procedures amounting to approximately 3.2 million euros.

Ljubljana – The Health Ministry has picked Sanolabor as the supplier of a million rapid antigen test for mass testing for coronavirus. The medical supplier submitted the lowest bid among 22 bidders.

Sanolabor offered EUR 1.37 per test, with the total cost for the state amounting to EUR 1.137 million, show data published on the Public Procurement Portal.