Tender evaluation criteria in the public procurement of works

The amendment to the Public Procurement Law (PPL) [7], which came into effect on 19 October 2014, introduced new principles of tender evaluation. The price may no longer be the sole criterion, unless the conditions listed in the PPL occur. The purpose of the article is to analyze the tender evaluation process in the public procurement of works in the situation where contracting authorities are obliged to apply also other criteria apart from price. Undoubtedly, it will result in a reduced number of procedures where price is the only criterion. The paper presents the results of the research illustrating the scale of this phenomenon and the way of using the new regulations by contracting authorities. The paper contains a brief description of legal bases, new principles of applying tender evaluation criteria and the present practice in this area. The article presents the results of the analysis of notices of contracts on works, published in the Public Procurement Bulletin (PPB) [2] after the amendment to the PPL. The analysis focused on the type, number and frequency of applying the criteria and on their weightings in contracts on works concerning different types of building structures. The conducted research shows that the type of the subject matter of the contract does not influence the choice of criteria. The main criteria, apart from price, include guarantee (period and conditions) and time limit for completion. The number of procedures in which price is the only criterion has decreased significantly. The research reveals that in the tender evaluation process regarding contracts on works contracting authorities take practically no account of life cycle costs and do not apply the so-called environmental criteria.

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Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (zadania 2017).