Chairman of the Public Procurement Office

JUDr. Peter Kubovič

He has been in charge of the Office since November 10, 2022.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava. He subsequently worked at the Office for Public Procurement from the position of clerk to director of the legislative and legal department. From 2012 to 2013, he headed the public procurement department at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic. Since 2013, he has been a legal expert at the Office for Public Procurement in the department for methodology and electronic public procurement. From 2018 to 2020, he headed the public procurement department at the Trnava City Hall.

In 2020, he was appointed a member of the Council of the Public Procurement Office, which is the second-instance decision-making body in the field of public procurement in the Slovak Republic. At the same time, he started working as a specialist and methodologist at the Slovak Electricity Transmission System, a.s.

He has been a long-term lecturer in the field of public procurement, specializing in the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

His goal in his current position is to transform public procurement into a simple, effective and transparent process for the benefit of the public. It considers it important to build the expertise of the Office, reduce bureaucracy for public procurers, contracting authorities and economic entities by strengthening the electronicization of public procurement, deepen cooperation with the professional community and academia, strengthen the methodological activities of the Office, and also transparent communication about the Office's activities and decisions.