Participation of Foreign Companies in Public Procurement Tenders in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

March 2016Procurement Industry

Abstract

Public procurement tenders represent for many companies an important source of business opportunities and their results represent significant portion on their revenues. Sectors like energy, healthcare, infrastructure construction are in CEE countries still heavily operated by state or state-owned companies which are subject to public procurement legislation. The public procurement process should be based on principles of transparency and non-discrimination as it is defined in the respective EU regulations. The manner how these principles are followed in practice of EU individual member states in case of participation of foreign entrepreneurs will be demonstrated in this article on examples from the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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Marty Gomez

Head of Procurement, iManage, USA

Working in a centralized legal department, providing legal advice for global business

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Svenja Partu

General Counsel, thyssenkrupp Polysius GmbH, Germany

Building an Elite In-house Legal Department

I have served in three general counsel roles in different industries over the past 27 years, including most recently for two decades with CF Industries (NYSE:CF). CF is an international...Read more

Participation of Foreign Companies in Public Procurement Tenders in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

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