Decision Making of the Slovak Statutory Local Municipalities on Public Procurement Proceedings of Public Services

Slovak cities insure several services. The article is concentrated on waste collection, lightening, care of the verdure, road maintaining and cemetery services and we analyze decision-making on the contract allocation by Slovak cities in the context of transparent decision-making which is assumption of the public services effective utilization. The findings hint as that cities mainly use public tenders within the selection of given services provider Such competitive practices are chosen within the contracts that are restricted on the longest period and are at the same time restricted on the highest prices. According to our findings political factors, besides economic motivations, are entering into the decision-making of contract allocation. An example is identified influence of political cycle on contract allocation.