Public contracts should be tendered as much as possible in the open tendering procedure. IT contracts should be tendered in the competitive dialogue regime.
If public contracts were tendered as much as possible in the open public tendering procedure, not in a closed non-published tender, and if IT contracts were tendered in the competitive dialogue, it would be possible to open the access to public contracts to more companies which would lead to price reductions and quality increase.
Sources:
- European Commission Recommendation for a Council Recommendation on the 2015 National Reform Programme of the Czech Republic and delivering a Council opinion on the 2015 Convergence Programme of the Czech Republic, COM(2015) 254 final
- Staff Working Document, European Commission, Report on the Czech Republic, (COM(2015) 85 final), p. 26
- Czech Government Anti-corruption Action Plan for 2015, chap. 3, p. 12
- Transparency International: Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement, A Practical Guide, 2014, p. 17
- Kameník, M.et al., Openness of tender procedures in the Czech Republic, Oživení, 2011, p. 4
- Kohout, P. andcoll., Collection of texts of a working group for the fight against corruption, National Economic Government Council, June 2011, p. 67 - 70
- Transparency International Czech Republic: Small public contracts in the Czech Republic, December 2009, p. 17 and 34
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 16: Tools against “tailoring” of public procurement contracts, December 2013
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