The month of July was a very busy month for the Public
Procurement Act in terms of implementing legislation and
interpretative opinions. The Czech Ministry for Regional
Development issued three decrees implementing recent radical
changes to the Public Procurement Act and a methodology for the
public procurement process.
1. The Decrees
The newly issued decrees cover the following areas, (i)
delineation of the subject-matter in construction tenders, (ii)
commercial terms for construction tenders and (iii) the reasoning
behind public tender s. All decrees shall enter into force on 1
September 2012.
1.1 Definition of the subject-matter in construction
tenders
The decree No. 230/2012 Coll. requires that the tender
documentation clearly specifies its subject-matter in terms of
technical, technological, dispositional and operating
characteristics, appearance and quality. Further, it specifies the
content of an inventory of works, supplies and services,
