Procurement

The Turkish manufacturing sector continued to recover in March with a headline rate hovering above the threshold level for the tenth month in a row, according to figures released on April 1.

Ljubljana – The Court of Audit has found in a report on the efficiency of procurement of protective and medical equipment for containing the spread of the new coronavirus that, although the circumstances were extraordinary, the government, ministries and the Commodity Reserves Agency had been inefficient in the PPE procurement.

Turkey's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector dropped to 51.7 in February, a monthly business survey revealed on March 1.

The PMI decreased by 2.7 points from 54.4 in January, according to the report by the Istanbul Chamber of Industry, prepared in collaboration with London-based global data firm IHS Markit.

Eleven companies are bidding for the construction of the Bulgaria-Serbia gas interconnector in Bulgarian territory, the Public Procurements Agency said on its website. The contracting authority is Bulgartransgaz. The project cost is estimated at 143,559,450 leva pre-VAT.

Head of the Emergency Management Department (DSU) Raed Arafat said on Thursday, referring to discussions in the public square regarding the public procurement of medical supplies during the ongoing COVID-91 pandemic, that it is "the most politicized emergency instance", underlining that the efforts of the General Emergency Management Inspectorate (IGSU) and other bodies have been "overshadowed

Despite an initial interest shown by several companies in reviving a ferry link connecting Cyprus and Greece,not a single offer was submitted in the tender launched by the Cypriot government on December 2020, the country's Shipping Deputy Ministry announced Friday.

The tender process closed on January 29.

Economic activity in the eurozone shrank markedly in January as stringent lockdowns to contain the coronavirus pandemic hit the bloc's dominant service industry hard.

Greece is at a very important juncture in its foreign policy, during which much will be decided.

The debates in Parliament on the procurement of French fighter jets and on the extension of the country's territorial waters in the Ionian Sea to 12 nautical miles will be a test, and a very important one.

The purchasing managers index (PMI) that IHS Markit compiles may have shown an improvement to 46.9 points in December against 42.3 points in November, but the performance of the manufacturing sector in Greece remains anaemic due to the imposition of the second lockdown from November 7.

Output continued to decrease rapidly due to weak demand and the restrictions.

The US announced sanctions earlier this month to penalize Turkey over its procurement of Russia’s S-400 system under a US law known as CAATSA