Novelties Regarding Public Procurement Procedures

Abstract

The public procurement volume amounts to 10.5% of GDP which represents a considerable part of the Slovene economy. Thus, public procurement remains an important generator of economic growth and one of the key agents for the public financial expenditure policy. The public procurement analysis shows that the public procurement structure and share did not essentially change in Slovenia from 2001 to 2006. The data analysis of the public procurement contracts awarded in 2006 showed that the public procurement contracts were non-uniformly distributed according to their values and the number of procedures. On the one hand, great fragmentation and dispersion of public procurement contracts manifest themselves in the small-value public contract segment and its 25.1% value share in all of the public procurement contracts, but on the other hand, there is concentration of the high-value public procurement contracts in merely few large-volume orders. Key words: • public procurement • public funds • public procurement procedure • economic policy • Slovenia