Abstract

After almost 15 years in force, the public procurement law of 2004, governing various types of procedures, in particular public procurement procedures, is no longer the best tool for efficient and effective public procurement. Subsequent amendments to the Law have been introduced and intended to improve and simplify the procedures regulated in the act. The draft of a new Public Procurement Law of January this year also assumes that the new law, this time a completely new legal act, will simplify and streamline the procedures in force. By presenting selected aspects of the proposed legal solutions, this paper is an attempt to present the new regulations in the context of the indicated simplifications regarding the procedure of preparing for the award of a public contract, the procedure of making the award, the handling of disputes between the contracting authority and contractors and monitoring contracts and procedures related to signing a public contract and performing the contract. The analysis of selected solutions in the new draft of the Public Procurement Law is also the starting point for an attempt to assess the drafted solutions against the assumptions set out by the author of the draft law.