The importance of small-scale public procurements in municipal budgets

This Master´s thesis is dealing with small scale public procurements. Small scale public procurements are a specific category of government contracts since they not as rigorously regulated by law as the sub-limit and over-the-limit contracts. The analysis is dealing with small scale public procurements in selected communities, specifically it studies the ratio of the value of small scale public contracts and the total value of public contracts. The analysis is extended with an example of two selected cities. In the final section, a regression analysis is conducted, which, similarly to previous chapters, studies the relation between small scale public procurements and population of selected municipalities