Public Procurement Directorate

Director: Yra Yordanova-Vianova
E-mail: yvitanova@mrrb.government.bg

Department “Legal Compliance Control of Public Procurement”
Head of Department: Maria Grigorova

Department “Planning and Conduct of Public Procurement”
Head of Department: Penka Vratcheva-Pencheva

Functions of the Directorate:
1. Plans, organises and coordinates all activities related to the preparation and conduct of public procurement award procedures and prepares an annual schedule for their implementation.
2. Develops and prepares the documentation for public procurement award procedures.
3. Conducts public procurement procedures in accordance with the applicable legal requirements and the European Community public procurement rules and national legislation, and is responsible for their lawful implementation.
4. Drafts public procurement contracts and organises their conclusion; monitors and controls contract performance jointly with the responsible administrative unit, from which it receives timely necessary information.
5. Maintains a register of public procurement procedures conducted during the relevant year.
6. Prepares opinions on draft legal acts related to the implementation of the Public Procurement Act and its secondary legislation.
7. Prepares and submits, within the legally established deadlines, the information required for publication in connection with public procurement procedures to the Public Procurement Agency and the Official Journal of the European Union.
8. Maintains the documentation of completed public procurement procedures.
9. Develops the Ministry’s internal rules under the Public Procurement Act and its implementing regulations.
10. Prepares opinions on complaints submitted in relation to public procurement procedures and provides procedural representation before judicial authorities and the Commission for Protection of Competition.