“These are only contracts announced by the capital, so the list does not take into account other large contracts awarded by the city company – such as transport company or Technical Administration of Communications,” said Councilor Adam Zábranský (Pirates). in the management of the city.

“In addition, this allows suppliers to buy for orders, which will hopefully be reflected in a higher number of offers. I would like to remind you that already at the beginning of October 2019, we launched the CityVizor application, which provides clear information on the city’s income and expenses. Gradually, individual city districts are also opening up their finances within the application. On the opendata.praha.eu portal, data on individual received invoices can be found again, “Zábranský pointed out.

Councilors approved modification of rules for small contracts

The list of “big” orders also includes, for example, the purchase of thirteen hundred mobile devices for police officers, the improvement of the embankment at Branické ledárny, the construction of a school playground in Zličín, less than thirty city flats on Černý most or the new Rescue Station for more living animals in Jinonice. -Gallas Palace or the building of the former Exchange in the area of ​​Holešovice Market Square. The complete reconstruction of the building with a total cost of around 200 million crowns was consecrated last week by representatives.

“For me personally, this is a turning point – after decades of inactivity and ten years of litigation with a former tenant, the city has finally signed up for the first major investment in the dilapidated and neglected Prague Market Square,” said Pavel Vyhnánek, the mayor’s deputy for finance. ). The project, which now has a building permit, has been prepared by previous municipal coalitions and is now supported by the opposition.

Four large-scale city contracts, including the reconstruction of the backbone road in Zbraslav or the new “fire station” in Suchdol, have a “question mark” so far – they can announce their announcement to secure funding.

On Monday’s proposal, the city council also approved an amendment to the rules for small-scale procurement. Since the beginning of July, the obligation to announce open public tenders has been postponed for contracts over half a million crowns in the case of the current two million in the case of services and six million in the case of construction work. “We want to end the current practice where often only a few pre-selected companies can apply for smaller contracts or where they were awarded directly without open competition,” the councilor said, adding that economically difficult time and increase quality and price competition between bidders.