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Brief information – Report about the results of activity
of the Office for Public Procurement in 2003

The process of the public procurement joins planning important needs of the society and their final realisation. In awarding public contracts, the principles of transparency, of equal treatment and non-dicrimination of tenderers and candidates, of competition while being compliant with the principles of economy in expending funds, shall be applied. Public procurement is one of the most monitored areas in the Member states of the European Union which apply free movement of goods, services, persons and capital as the base principle of forming common market within the EC.

An important role of the Office for Public Procurement (hereinafter „the Office“) in 2003 was the full approximation of public procurement legislation. The Office prepared amendment of the Act on Public Procurement that resulted within the scope of legislative process into the new Act on Public Procurement which is fully aligned with EC public procurement directives.

The Office prepared in 2003 in the area of the joint procurement of several contracting authorities the methodology and forms for elaborating annual assessment reports of the state administration bodies about application of joint procurement. The report about solving the problem within prepared update of the Act was elaborated in the fight against the corruption. Enhancing the system of public procurement and applying new forms of procurement (joint procurement and e-procurement) were stated as very important task in fight against corruption.

In 2003, the Office continued in activities and in fulfilling the obligations arising from ending of the accession process of the Slovak Republic into EU. The Office cooperated on preparing documents and materials which were submitted to European institutions, participated in elaborating background to the Accession Treaty within the chapter number 1 – free movement of goods.

In 2003, the Office was issuing the Public Procurement Journal in compliance with the Act. Weekly periodicity of issuing the Journal was changed into two and later four issues per week. The result of increasing the frequency of issuing the Journal means to speed-up of publishing the notices and thereby shortening the process of public procurement. It was published 16 228 notices within the year. Negotiated procedure without prior publication of contract notice was used by concluding the partial contracts on the ground of framework contract (46 %), by gaining object of procurement accessible only from one source (12 %), by procuring for reasons of an extraordinary event for which the contracting authority is clearly not responsible (13 %), and by cancelling the procedure by contracting authority (6 %). The possibility of using this procedure was restricted after amending the Act as of 1st January 2003 and this implies to clarify the process of public procurement.

It was delivered 1688 filings to the Office last year and therefrom ten filings from abroad (nine filings from the Czech Republic and one filing from France) to which the Office rendered 1135 decisions. It was registered also 398 motions on exercising the surveillance (therefrom 25 anonymous). From this count there were 348 motions on exercising the audit. After that there was exercised the audit in all cases. None request concerned concession procurement.

Conclusion

The Office focused its activity in appraising period on enhancing the process of public procurement in conditions of the Slovak Republic that eventuates in legislative area into adopting new Act on Public Procurement and Decree on content and models of notices (invitations) used in public procurement that came into force 1st January 2004. The Office fulfilled its task by solving disputes in process of public procurement, by preparing professionally qualified persons in public procurement, by carrying on the surveillance and by maintaining the list of entrepreuners. Year 2003 was characterised of full approximation of legislation. This approximation was performed within process of preparation of the Slovak Republic for accession into EU also with goal of future application in projects financed from Structural funds and Cohesion fund. The next period will be focused first of all on implementation of the Act. At this time, the Office will focus on processing the conception of public procurement in line with preparing changes of EU law in the area of public procurement. The condition for qualitative performance of specialized activity of the Office is enhancement of staff, salaries and premises situation.