Administrative burden of procurement under the new Public Procurement Act

Experience shows that excessive administrative complexity of the process (in this case, public procurement) ignores the purpose of this process and leads to an emphasis on the formality of the process itself and in extreme cases up to the collapse of the system. Bring less formality procurement for contracting authorities was one of the purposes of the adoption of new directives on public procurement. These guidelines go against the policy of the Czech Republic in the field of public procurement within the framework of the so-called. Transparent amendment essentially formalized procurement system from 1. 4. 2012. Analysis of the administrative requirements of the procurement process, according to the Law no. 137/20016 Coll. on public procurement, and the new law on public procurement approved by the Chamber of Deputies is the subject of this article. The author focuses on time-consuming procurement and other relevant aspects.