The Chamber draws on the experience of public procurement in the Netherlands
The Bulgarian Construction Chamber initiated a two-day working meeting on “Public procurement in the Netherlands and Bulgaria” held in Sofia. At the invitation of the largest construction organization in our country arrived Joost Fijneman founder of the Institute for Public Procurement in the Netherlands. The expert made a review of the Dutch public procurement system, stopped on the main tasks and objectives of the Construction Chamber in the Netherlands and the functions, structure and role of the Dutch Institute for Public Procurement.
Joost Fijneman has two master degrees from the University of Utrecht – in science and politics and in Dutch civil law. He has worked for one of the ten largest European engineering companies Grontmiij first as a lawyer specializing in the public procurement law and later as head of the legal department. In 2007 he joined the Association of Builders in the Netherlands (Bouwend Nederland), where he became head of legal department and in 2008 founded the Institute of Public Contracts Stichting Aanbestedingsinstituut Bouw and Infra.
The Institute for Public Procurement is an independent organization founded by the Dutch Construction Chamber in 2008. Its goal is to improve the practice of public procurement procedures in the field of construction and infrastructure. To achieve this, all publicly announced procedures for procurement are analyzed and this analysis serves as a starting point for action toward relative authorities and publication of facts and figures about the actual practice in public procurement in construction and infrastructure in the Netherlands.