Abstract
Two implementing regulations to the Public Procurement Act came into force as of 1 January 2022. One of them regulates the problem of estimating construction costs. It is the only general act of Polish law relating to the pricing system in construction. It had been particularly awaited by the circles professionally and scientifically linked with investment processes in construction and public procurement since the credibility and efficiency of cost estimates in construction in our country arouse many reservations.
Recently published has been also the long awaited document “Procurement policy of the state for the period 2022-2025”.
The publication has been aimed at answering a question whether and to what extent the above cited documents are capable of effecting greater credibility and efficiency of cost estimates in the Polish market of public construction works contracts.
The author believes that the regulation on investor cost estimates in public procurement will not be able to effect improvement of estimating efficiency. On the other hand, tender cost estimating is not sufficiently efficient either. Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of construction cost estimating in public procurement, changes and modifications of a more fundamental nature are needed. However, a necessary prerequisite for such changes is the inspiring and creative role of the minister, who under the Act on departments of government administration is responsible for the construction industry. That minister should be able to employ all means necessary to senate construction cost estimating in our country. Only thanks to the proactivity pf that body it will be possible inter alia to introduce uniform classification for construction works cost estimates or more vigorous popularisation of BIM modelling.