Specific aspects of public procurement in IT services

Public procurement in IT services has recently experienced a significant increase in size and numbers, as well as in the amount of invested financial means. As a result of these trends, problems related to the execution of this type of public procurement have increased as well. Several critics blame these problems on current legislation that is allegedly insufficiently adapted to this specific kind of public procurement. The aim of this thesis is to assess whether the current legislation (particularly, the Act no. 137/2006 Coll., on Public Contracts) gives contracting authorities procuring in the field of information technology enough opportunities to conclude public contracts without difficulties. Or, if this alleged insufficient adaptation of the current legislation to public procurement in IT services is not real. From this assessment, several alterations that could be made to the legislation are suggested. Such suggestions could be used in discussions of the new act on public contracts, which is currently in the early stages of preparation. This thesis has three chapters. The first chapter is introductory. It defines basic terminology relevant to the topic, shows statistics on public procurement in IT services and introduces the specifics of this type of public procurement. The second chapter..