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How to prepare a public procurement in the healthcare sector?
In this presentation, we will outline the main steps that should be implemented in a procedure for awarding a public contract under Article 18 of the Public Procurement Act, so that it is prepared, organized and conducted in accordance with the rules of the Law on Public Procurement and its Regulations implementation and other relevant legal acts in force.
1. General conditions.
1.1. Legal term "Public contracting authority" of public procurement!
Public contracting authorities are defined in Art. 5, para. 2 of the ZOP. This also includes state and municipal medical institutions [1] , whose relevance and applicability to the concept of "public contracting authority" is complemented by the definition of "Public organization" given in §2, item 43 of the Transitional and Final Provisions of the Law on Public Procurement In continuation of what has been said, state and municipal medical institutions are public law organizations that acquire the status of "public contracting authority", as they are created with the specific purpose of satisfying needs of general interest; b) they do not have industrial or commercial in nature; c) are financed with more than 50 percent by state, territorial or local bodies or by other public law organizations; or have a management or supervisory body, the majority of the members to which they are appointed by a public contracting authority under Art. 5, para. 2, items 1-14.