Abstract

The article stresses the need to improve qualifications and professional skills of the clerical staff awarding and supervising execution of public contracts. In particular, the correct conduct of a highly formalized and complex tender or any other public procurement procedure requires top professional preparation. It involves not only simple observance of the regulations, but first of all their correct interpretation requiring legal, economic and technical expertise as well as diverse bureaucratic abilities. Apart from ordinary staff stabilization factors of key stimulating importance is the correct organizational culture in the contracting entity, as well as the creative role of the manager responsible for the implementation of effective management controls aimed at promoting professional development and observance of professional ethics. Besides desirable improvement of entity’s operation, professionalization of public procurement staff considerably reduces the risk of oversights that entail penal liability under the administrative law.