Does the Lowest Bid Price Evaluation Criterion Make for a More Efficient Public Procurement Selection Criterion? (Case of the Czech Republic)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F15%3A10306860" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/15:10306860 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61384399:31110/15:00046803

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nispa-2015-0003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nispa-2015-0003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nispa-2015-0003" target="_blank" >10.1515/nispa-2015-0003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does the Lowest Bid Price Evaluation Criterion Make for a More Efficient Public Procurement Selection Criterion? (Case of the Czech Republic)

Original language description

Through the institute of public procurement is allocated a considerable volume of financial resources. It is therefore in the interest of contracting entities to seek ways of how to achieve an efficient allocation of resources. Some public contract awarding entities along with some public administration authorities in the Czech Republic believe that the use of a single evaluation criterion (the lowest bid price) results in a more efficient tender for a public contract. It was found that contracting entities in the Czech Republic strongly prefer to use the lowest bid price criterion. Within the examined sample, 86.5% of public procurements were evaluated this way. Analysis of the examined sample of public contracts proved that the choice of an evaluation criterion, even preference of the lowest bid price criterion, does not have any obvious impact on the final cost of a public contract. The study concludes that preferring the criterion of the lowest bid price within evaluation of public

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AE - Management, administration and clerical work

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

ISSN

1337-9038

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

41-59

UT code for WoS article

000360010800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84938558688