Crown Agents in Bulgaria

Crown Agents’ first experience of working in Bulgaria was in 1990, when we undertook an evaluation mission to analyse the needs and capabilities of the Ministry of Health to manage the acquisition, storage and control of medical supplies.

Since then, we have worked on over 20 projects, covering everything from Customs modernization to supporting the introduction of natural gas.

The diversity of our portfolio in Bulgaria reflects almost the full range of the company’s multi-disciplinary skills. Public Finance Management is one of our core businesses and this is evidenced by our involvement with customs reform in Bulgaria ever since 1995. For the next five years we were contracted to support the reform and modernisation of customs services throughout the region, in almost all the countries seeking membership of the European Union at both the national and regional levels.

 

Year Project Title Funded
Procurement Audit for Lubbock Fine European Commission
Financial Management Training for Bulgarian Government Officials
1997 Assistance with the Creation of a Government Valuation Department UK 'Know How' Fund
1997 - 1999 Procurement Services for the Bulgarian Vocational Education and Training Programme (VETERST) European Commission
Debt Management Training for Bulgarian Government Officials
1991 and 1993 Support for a 'Natural Gas in Eastern Europe' seminar World Bank/IDA/IBRD
Management of Bulgarian Government Training projects
1995 - 2000 Support to the Bulgarian Customs on preparation for EU accession (within a multi-country project) European Commission
1996 - 1999 Consultancy to the Ministry of Transport on Restructuring of the Bulgarian Railways European Commission
Procurement for Development Projects
2001 Provision of a Customs Advisor to the Minister of Finance (subsumed into the first contract on Measures to Assist in the Reform of Bulgarian Customs) Government of Bulgaria
05.09.2002 - 20.09.2002 Assessment of Border Crossing Points in Bulgaria UK Foreign Ministry
2000 - 2003 Japanese Non-project Grant Aid Government of Japan
2002 - 2004 Measures to Assist in the Reform of the Bulgarian Customs Administration Government of Bulgaria
2004-2006 Measures to Assist in the Modernisation of the Bulgarian Customs Administration Government of Bulgaria
2007 - to date Measures to Assist in the Modernisation of the Bulgarian Financial Administration Government of Bulgaria