Division of Public Procurement Contracts into Lots

Abstract

Public procurement is one of the parts of a public finance sector. It includes the specific solutions in the field of public funds spending. The implementation of the EU directives from 2014 to the Public Procurement Law aimed at, among others, ensuring an access to the market for small and medium-sized enterprises by introducing the possibility to divide the procurement into sections. It will significantly increase an access of those companies to public procurement. The contracting authority is not obliged to divide the procurement, but it has a right to do so. However, according to the amendment of the Public Procurement Law, the contracting party – in the course of conducting the procurement procedure – prepares a report which includes reasons for not dividing the procurement into sections. The authors of this study want to explain the problems of contracting authorities, who initiate and conduct proceedings on the award of public contracts, by explaining the content of provisions governing the division of procurement into sections.

Keywords

• public procurement
• division into sections
• contracting authority