Joint Public Procurement by Municipalities – Slovak Experience and Lessons to be Learned from Selected European Union Member States (National Report and Legal Comparative Study)
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https://doi.org/10.46282/bpf.2025.17Keywords:
public procurement, joint public procurement, municipal cooperation, public financeAbstract
The paper analyses the institute of joint public procurement (the JPP) that can be used by municipalities to jointly purchase goods, services or works to achieve the cost efficiency. The JPP has potential to rationalise the public spending on the level of municipalities, and the relevant scientific literature is also pointing out to using of cooperation in public procurement as a potentially effective tool of municipal cooperation. In order to analyse the specific conditions for use of this institute at the level of municipalities in the Slovak Republic, the author conducted a legal comparative analysis of the legal regulation of the JPP in the selected member states of the European Union and by using method of quantitate research also analysed data provided by the Slovak Office for Public Procurement to assess the usage of the JPP at the level of municipalities in the Slovak Republic in the period from 2018 to 2023. It can be concluded that even though the regular usage of the JPP by municipalities in general has potential to create functional microregions at the level of local government, it is not sufficiently used and therefore its potential is not achieved in the conditions of the Slovak Republic.
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