Press releases - Public Procurement
2013-12-19 / Chairman of The Office upheld decisions in cases of manipulated electronic drawings The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (“the Office”), Petr Rafaj, upheld eight first-instance decisions in which the Office stated the violation of the Act on Public Contracts which consisted of non-transparent narrowing of the number of tenderers through electronic drawing device
2013-12-16 / Administration of roads of Karlovy Vary region impermissibly narrowed the range of tenderers The Office for the Protection of Competition (“the Office”) imposed fines in the amount of CZK 1 million and CZK 600,000 in its two first-instance decisions to Krajská správa a údržba silnic Karlovarského kraje (Regional Administration and Maintenance of Roads of Karlovy Vary Region) for a violation...
2013-12-11 / Breach of a ban on discrimination of tenderers The Office for the Protection of Competition (“the Office”) imposed the fine of CZK 500,000 to the company Krodos Bus, a.s., for administrative offences when awarding a public contract for the supply of low-floor intercity buses with a length of approximately 12 meters
2013-12-04 / Road and Motorway Directorate unlawfully awarded a public contract for the repair of a bridge in Trutnov The Office for the Protection of Competition (“the Office”) imposed by its first-instance decision the fine of CZK 800,000 to the Road and Motorway Directorate for the violation of the Act on Public Contracts (“the Act”) in the award procedure „I/14 repair of the bridge, evidence number 14-069 Trutnov HSM”
2013-10-18 / Fines for the Prague City Hall and Prague Public Transport company in the Open Card case were confirmed The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition, Petr Rafaj, has confirmed by his second-instance decision the fine in the amount of CZK 600,000 imposed to the Prague City Hall and of CZK 500,000 imposed to Public Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague for the violation of the Act on Public...
2013-08-20 / Annual Report 2012 The year 2012 not only saw the Office for the Protection of Competition entering its third decade of existence, but also brought a number of fundamental changes, primarily in the field of competition and public tenders
2012-08-30 / Annual Report 2011 The Office for the Protection of Competition issued its Annual Report for the year 2011
2011-12-14 / Information Bulletin Twenty Years of the Office for the Protection of Competition The Office for the Protection of Competition is commemorating an important anniversary, it is twenty years since the establishment of the Office
2011-09-20 / Annual report 2010 The Office for the Protection of Competition issued its annual report for the year 2010. The Office processed more than 60 administrative proceedings in the area of competition in the last year and imposed fines ammounting to CZK 88 millions. Within the field of public procurement, 511 first-isntance...
2011-06-16 / U.S. Ambassador Norman L. Eisen visits the Office On Tuesday 10 May 2011, U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Norman L. Eisen, visited the Office for the Protection of Competition. The Ambassador was welcomed by the vice-chairman of the Office Mr. Kamil Rudolecký
