Prague 10 has chosen construction companies, which will hit 1.6 billion
The City Hall of Prague 10 succeeded in a hussar trick. In the future, he will no longer have to bother announcing open tenders for the repair of every roof, elevator or facade or the construction of a kindergarten. The district office has concluded a framework agreement with four construction companies, and will distribute construction contracts worth up to 1.6 billion crowns over the next four years.
The town hall of the tenth part of Prague is one of the pioneers in this respect. Unlike legal services in construction, framework contracts are not exactly common. Each order is unique so that certain parameters can be set in advance to achieve the best possible price, there is general agreement.
The City Hall of Prague 10 believes that a limited circle of companies that have “capped” the prices of individual works in advance is more advantageous than an open tender. In the round, these four well-known companies will “fight” for a specific contract and the one with a better price will win, the second will be the idea of the office. The Office did not say how the Office intends to prevent the participants from reaching an agreement, for example. But he was able to quantify the expected savings at ten percent. The system has another benefit: it avoids the potential division of contracts into smaller ones, which generally ensures that there is no need for an open tender, so that anti-corruption measures are in fact the case.
“When we were interested in this system and wanted to be inspired, we were unable to find out almost anything specific about this system of framework agreements. In the end, we created it together with experts. It absolutely prevents the possibility of corrupt practices, “praised the novelty, the mayor of Prague Milan Richter.
In the competition of a total of six bids, the companies Podzimek a synové, Polabská stavební CZ, Subterra and Bau plus succeeded in the billion-dollar municipal tender. Originally, interest in this contract was higher. 26 companies out of 29 met the qualification requirements. Of these, the city district selected ten companies by a lottery – then before the new Public Procurement Act, which banned it as non-transparent. Six signed up.