Approaches Regarding the Simplified Public Procurement Procedure in Romania

Public procurement in Romania is an important part of any economy, regardless of the geographical location, political orientation or level of development. Therefore, they can be considered as a separate part, but not insignificant, of the business of a functioning market economy. Moreover, they benefit from its own law, including the global economic agreements governing commercial transactions of this type. Public Procurement is an important element of the Internal Market and a basic method of public spending and ensuring the free movement of goods, services and works by domestic and foreign companies. Through the adoption and implementation in the national legislation of the Member States of a package of Directives 2014, a new Public Procurement regime is settled. The Public Procurement Law provides two new awarding procedure. Simplified procedure – may be applied by the contracting authority for the contracts with a reduced value and the Innovation partnership. The above procedures are in addition to the procedures below which were already provided for by the prior legislation. In Romania a simplified procedure is applied for contracts /framework agreements with an estimated value below the above mentioned thresholds but with exceed RON 135,060 for supply and services contracts and RON 450,200 for works contracts. Within a simplified procedure, contract notices are published only in the Electronic System for Public Procurement.