The number of public procurement procedures edged down a fraction to 5,744 during the period.
Construction contracts accounted for 25% of the value of public procurements and orders of goods for 47%. Services made up 28% of the total.
The value of construction contracts reached HUF 1.073 tln, the value of service contracts was at HUF 1.038 tln and for those of goods was at 715.4 bln. Microbusinesses and SMEs won 42% of contracts in terms of value and 78% in terms of numbers, the report shows.
The share of single-bid contracts in both the EU and national procedures shows a continuously decreasing trend, which indicates an increase in competition, the authority said.
The share of single-bid contracts was 12% for contracts with values under the threshold for inclusion in the EU’s tender system and 26% for contracts with values over the threshold.
The share of single-bid contracts, in value terms, stood at 6% for those under the EU tender system inclusion threshold and 19% for those over the threshold.
There were just 161 negotiated procedures called during the period.