Entering into a public contract

Entering into a public contract Abstract The topic of this thesis is entering into a public contract while this issue remains highly topical particularly with regard to the new complex legislation on public procurement, which brought a relatively significant change into this legal area. The main objective of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive interpretation of a process which results in a public contract as well as to analyse the admissibility of a modification of this legal act. This thesis is divided into three parts. First part is particularly concentrated on the sources of a public procurement legal framework. National and European legislation is analysed in this part, together with a minor attention to the international public law. Furthermore, the fundamental principles of a public procurement are subject to rather detailed research as they have significant impact on the entire contracting process. Due to a non- negligible shift in the terminology the basic terms of a public procurement are shortly explained in the end of the first part. In the second part which is crucial for this thesis the actual process of concluding a public contract is described. This process comprises two main stages. Therefore the second part is focused on both pre-contracting and contracting process together with its..