Abstract

The Slovak Public Procurement Act comprehensively regulated the principles of granting classic sectoral contracts, contracts in the defence and security sectors, as well as concessions and competitions. The Act faithfully implements major provisions of the Public Procurement Directive, significantly expanding some of them, e.g. those concerning the abnormally low price. The Slovak legislator has devoted a lot of attention to ensuring transparency of the public procurement process.

The article discusses major institution of the Slovak public procurement law in comparative terms. The author focuses on describing most significant differences as compared with Polish regulations. He synthetically describes matters connected with carrying out the procedure, concluding and modifying a public contract, as well as systemic issues (the powers and role of the Slovak Public Procurement Office and other authorities). Considerable attention is also given to Slovak appeal procedures.