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At todays meeting of the government, the Ministry of Finance submitted a report on the assessment of the central purchasing of state and the central purchasing systems for the year 2017. The document analyzes the results of the first two years of the central state purchasing operation in the case of over-government public procurement. It also includes a comprehensive evaluation of centralized procurement for individual ministries and a quantification of savings achieved in 2017.
From 2015, the centralization of purchases is devoted to a superintendent coordination group that coordinates central purchasing between departments, sets user standards and prepares central public procurement. Coordination takes place in the areas of ICT, cars and fuels, office supplies, energy and building management as well as transport and accommodation . The Central Contracting Authority in the field of ICT is the Ministry of the Interior, the remaining areas fall under the competence of the Ministry of Finance.
The total volume of spending ministries for commodities that can be purchased within the central procurement was estimated at 12.9 billion. CZK . This corresponds to roughly one fifth of the total operational expenditure of the ministries and almost 1% of the total volume of state budget expenditures.
In the past two years, the Ministry of Finance has carried out two pilot over-the-counter public procurement contracts for the purchase of passenger cars and office paper, the Ministry of the Interior has carried out four more in the field of ICT. The total financial volume of these purchases in the years 2016 - 2017 amounted to 4.6 billion. CZK (in 2016 2.2 billion. CZK , in 2017 2.4 billion. CZK ). Overall, compared to the original ceníkovým prices we managed to save 1.9 billion. CZK , ie more than 40%.
"Our past experience confirms that central purchasing is an effective means of reducing the cost of running the state. So far, the first major car purchase contract has been successfully completed. Under this contract, more than 1,400 cars will be purchased in the future for different state organizations. It managed to save on average 15%, for cars of the upper middle class and SUVs it was even 33%, " said Finance Minister Alena Schillerová.
In the case of the over-the-counter purchase of office paper, it also managed to save on average prices, but only by 7%. Its central contracting authority The Ministry of Finance has therefore decided that the purchase of office paper will take place at the level of individual ministries. "The difficulty of preparing this super-public contract exceeds the real savings achieved," explains Alena Schillerová.
Significant savings were also made with centralized purchases at individual department level. As part of departmental systems were centralized procurement in 2017 made purchases with a total volume of 4.2 billion. CZK . Compared to current prices, CZK 715.8 million was saved , equivalent to 17% of the total financial volume. As of 2015, the savings achieved ranged between 16 and 19% of the total volume.
"The biggest savings have been made in the purchase of cars, gas and telecommunication services, where several ministries managed to elicit new, more advantageous framework contracts for themselves and their branch organizations," the Finance Minister concludes.
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