Abstract:

The main objective of the National Council for Solving Complaints is to prevent the corruption from public procurement. In 2014, in Romania it became mandatory to deposit guarantee of good conduct by the bidders when they  challenge a procurement process. In this study we verify the impact that a legislative provision, witch condition the submission of the appeals, has had on the activity of bidders and how it improved the public procurement system from Romania. This research work analyze the effect of the legislative provisions on the quality of the public procurement system while verifying the existence of the link between the number of contested procedures and the Corruption Perception Index.