Public Procurement Law 

Public Procurement Law In April 2016, a new Law on Public Procurement in Bulgaria entered into force. The law contained regulations covering the different sub-phases of eProcurement, such as:

♦ eNotification,

♦ eTendering,

♦ eAuctions 

♦ Dynamic Purchasing System.

It fully complies with Directive 2014/24/EC of the European Parliament and the Councilon Public Procurement.

The latest amendment of the Public Procurement Act entered into force on 1 March 2019and was published in the State Gazette No. 86 of 18 October 2018. From 1 November 2019, the provisions introduced the mandatory use of the National Electronic Platform from the opening of the procedures to the receipt and opening of electronic applications for participation and tenders, as well as for the electronic communication in the course of the procurement procedure, will come into force.

By that date, trainings, testing and registration of users in the Platform will be carried out in order to smoothly changeover to eProcurement. The implementation of the Platform will take place in two stages. It will be fully completed with all functionalities by the end of 2020. The rules on the introduction of all of the Platform's functionalities will start to apply from 1 January 2021.

Public Procurement Register (PPR)

Contracting authorities in Bulgaria are required to publish their tender notices in the State Gazette, as well as on the PPR kept by the Public Procurement Agency (PPA). Mandatory national eProcurement is provided by the PPR and the portal developed by PPA. The PPR is an extensive electronic database which contains information about all procedures and allows for the collection, analysis and synthesis of information.