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The current guide was elaborated under the activities of the TENDERIO project. TENDERIO project is funded by the COSME program of the European Union (Grant Agreement No 739966) and aims to increase SMEs’ access to public procurement in EU.
This guide is addressed to SMEs and to any other economic operator interested in participating in Slovak public contracts and wishes to know more about the public procurement procedures in Slovakia.
Chapter one, introduces the scope and the content of this guide and lays out the concept within which it was developed.
The second chapter focuses on the potential of EU public procurement market, emphasizing the performance of European SMEs’ in the cross-border procurement contracts and briefly presenting the key points of the new EU legislative framework (2014) on public procurement.
Moreover, the third chapter sets light on the current status of public procurement in Slovakia. In particular, it provides an overview of the public procurement framework in Slovakia along with a summary of key data regarding the Slovak market size, i.e. the value of tenders, the number of tenders, the market share among construction, goods and services, the top sectors, as well as data regarding the cross-border procurement i.e. the implementation of Slovak public contracts by companies located in another EU Member State.
Chapter four, briefly comments on the national procedures of public procurement in Slovakia. More specifically, it includes information regarding:
• the contracting authorities;
• the award procedures;
• the eligibility of the potential bidders;
• the publication of the contracts notices;
• the time limits for the submission of an offer;
• the bid’s submission and the bid’s evaluation procedure;
• the award criteria;
• the complaints and the prejudicial objections.
In addition, the fifth chapter lists key points for the SMEs that are interested in submitting offers in Slovak public contracts. The guide concludes with a reference on how TENDERIO platform could support European SMEs in applying for a public contract abroad.
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