The cabinet adopted a bill on public procurement and a bill on public procurement in the areas of water, energy, transport and postal services at its correspondence session on Friday.
In line with the bills, the procurement procedures for classic tenders will be separate from procurement procedures in infrastructure, such as energy, water supply, transport and postal services.
According to Finance Ministry State Secretary Andrej Sircelj, the legislation brings simplification to several administrative procedures and introduces stricter payment regulations for contractors and subcontractors.
The bill on public procurement states that state bodies and local communities must publish a tender for goods or services worth at least EUR 137,000, while the limit for other bodies stands at EUR 211,000. In construction the value stands at EUR 5.287m.
Tenders will moreover be published on a special web portal, thus increasing the number of foreign bidders in Slovenia and Slovenian bidders abroad.
The bills also bring the Slovenian public procurement legislation in line with EU legislation, something the state should have done by February. The two bills will be sent to parliament to be dealt with by regular procedure.
Public contracts in Slovenia were worth SIT 439.6bn (EUR 1.8bn) in 2005 and represented 25% of all budgetary expenses and 6.7% of Slovenia's GDP, making them a substantial generator of economic growth, the Finance Ministry recently said.
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