The use of electronic measures during administration of public procurement not only helps to save recourses but also guarantees effectiveness, transparency and more possibilities for small and medium companies to take part in it. Directive 2004/17/EC coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and Directive 2004/18/EC on the coordination of procedures for the award of public work contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts became the basis of the legal regulation. Great Britain, Spain and Lithuania have incorporated norms of directives into their national law systems successfully. Great Britain is considered to be one of the leaders from European Union member states in e-procurement administration. Spain’s administrative units – Cataluña and Basque Country – are as examples of e-procurement’s regulation and for very good results in e-procurement’s administration in Basque Country. Lithuania has implemented new norms of directives with the law of public procurement and shows a quite good progress in it. In 2006 the Federation of Russia with new legal act of public procurement implemented many important aspects which will help to cooperate with the public procurement participants from abroad and administrate public procurement with the help of electronic measures. Electronic signature’s legal regulation is important for the e-procurement’s successful administration. The results... [to full text]

This thesis deals with public procurement and the influence of various aspects of the procurement procedure on the degree of competition and efficiency. The main aim of the thesis is to confirm the positive effect of competition and public procurement openness on the final price of the public procurement. This assumption was confirmed by regression analysis of a sufficiently representative sample of below-threshold procurement assigned in the first half of 2013 in the Czech Republic. At the end, the thesis defines certain weaknesses of the procurements.