Malé a střední podniky na trhu veřejných zakázek v České republice

The dissertation deals with placing of public procurements in the Czech Republic in compliance with the legal frame and analyses the process of placing of public procurements on the site of both contracting authorities and tenderers. The aim of the dissertation is to identify whether SMEs have equal status on the market of public procurements in the Czech Republic. Partial goals of the author are - identification of factors influencing public procurements from the perspective of effective expenditure of public funds by tenderers and impact of the effectiveness on the competitions intensity, and - identification of conditions for SMEs to participate in public procurements, barriers of entry and success in winning public procurements, and - analysis of choice of evaluation criteria used in public procurements and definitions of impact on SMEs success in the procurement based on particular option, and - comparison of legislation governing public procurements in the Czech Republic in the terms of Act No. 137/2006 Coll., on public procurements and Act No. 134/2016 Coll., on placing of public procurements and resulting recommendations for contracting authorities leading to strengthening participation and success of SMEs in public procurements Theoretical part deals with analysis of current status of public procurements in the Czech Republic and introduces basis for identification of main issues and possible solutions. The objectives are accomplished in several stages. First the author, followigh the analysis of factors influencing the procurement market, expresses the opinion that SMEs face many difficulties (natural and legislative) that complicate their active participation in public procurements, Within identification of factors influencing public procurements in the Czech Republic the author states that increase of number of submitted offers positively influences the tender price and refers to strong dependence between the tender price and assumed value of the public procurement, which may determine effectiveness of the procurement process. The dissertation further contains several recommendations for contracting authorities aiming to simplification of the procurement process and establishment of competitive environment favourable for SMEs participation in the public procurements. The dissertation concludes, based on the performed analysis, that the criterion of lowest tender price may, under certain circumstances, bring negative effects to SMEs due to lower economic stability in comparison with big entities. Within comparison of legal framework for public procurements in the Czech Republic the dissertartion concludes that new rules, implemented through EU directives bring benefites to all participans on the public procurements market