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Transparent and effective public investment — #108 Itemized budget for standardized public contracts

Itemized budget should be a part of tender documentation for standardized contracts, in particular for construction contracts. The expected quality of each given item shall be defined by the state, for example, which quality should the surface material of the highway possess. Providing that an itemized budget is well defined, the price should be the main criteria for the assessment of submitted offers. Public contracts should not be artificially divided into smaller ones.

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Update history

date	reason	effectiveness	progression
10/2016 current	The new Act on public procurement, which entered into force, allows the public contractor to require that the offer takes the form of an electronic catalogue containing itemized prices corresponding to the object of the tendered contract, however, it is not specified that in such a case the price should be the decisive assessment criterion. The prohibition of cutting public contracts of the same character in to smaller pieces exists both in the existing and the proposed law on public procurement, its enforcement is, however, doubtful.	Effectiveness 50%	Progression 90%	More
04/2016	The new Act on public procurement, which was approved, allows the public contractor to require that the offer takes the form of an electronic catalogue containing itemized prices corresponding to the object of the tendered contract, however, it is not specified that in such a case the price should be the decisive assessment criterion. The prohibition of cutting public contracts of the same character in to smaller pieces exists both in the existing and the proposed law on public procurement, its enforcement is, however, doubtful.	Effectiveness 50%	Progression 80%	More
03/2016	The proposal of the new law on public procurement, which is the Upper Chamber of the Parliament, allows the public contractor to require that the offer takes the form of an electronic catalogue containing itemized prices corresponding to the object of the tendered contract, however, it is not specified that in such a case the price should be the decisive assessment criterion. The prohibition of cutting public contracts of the same character in to smaller pieces exists both in the existing and the proposed law on public procurement, its enforcement is, however, doubtful.	Effectiveness 50%	Progression 70%	More
10/2015	The proposal of the new law on public procurement, which is the Lower Chamber of the Parliament allows the public contractor to require that the offer takes the form of an electronic catalogue containing itemized prices corresponding to the object of the tendered contract, however, it is not specified that in such a case the price should be the decisive assessment criterion. The prohibition of cutting public contracts of the same character in to smaller pieces exists both in the existing and the proposed law on public procurement, its enforcement is, however, doubtful.	Effectiveness 50%	Progression 60%	More
08/2015	The proposal of the new law on public procurement allows the public contractor to require that the offer takes the form of an electronic catalogue containing itemized prices corresponding to the object of the tendered contract, however, it is not specified that in such a case the price should be the decisive assessment criterion. The prohibition of cutting public contracts of the same character in to smaller pieces exists both in the existing and the proposed law on public procurement, its enforcement is, however, doubtful.	Effectiveness 50%	Progression 50%	More