Selected literature and best practice guidelines

Following documents describe public procurement best practice, a desired mode of conduct for public procurement contracting authorities. These documents represent the starting point for zIndex indiciators calculation.

• Act No. 106/1999 Coll., on Free Access to Information
• Act No. 137/2006 Coll., on Public Procurement
• Act No. 134/2016 Coll., on Public Procurement
• Ministry of Regional development: Public procurement formal guidelines (in Czech)
• Office for the Protection of Competition
• Czech Chamber of Architects: Competition regulations (in Czech)
• Ministry of Regional Development: Annual Public Procurement Implementation Report 2013 (in Czech)

• Oživení (2011):Transparency of Czech public procurement system (in Czech)
• Pavel, J.(2008) in Transparency International – ČR:Corruption and anti-corruption policies in public administration (in Czech)
• Pavel, J.(2010): Economic aspects of public procurement, presentation - Transparency International (in Czech)
• Transparency international CZ (2005): Czech public procurement: Corruption or transparency? (in Czech)
• Transparency international CZ (2007):Integrity pacts - TI anti-corruption procurement tool (in Czech)
• zIndex (2011):Z ministerstev za poslední čtyři roky odteklo 276 miliard neprůhledně, Tisková zpráva

• European Commission (2008): European Code of Best Practices Facilitating Access by SME’s to Public Procurement Contracts
• European Commission (2008):Opportunities for public sector technology procurement
• European Commission & PWC (2013):Identifying and Reducing Corruption in Public Procurement in the EU.
• European Commission, COCOF (2007):Guidelines for determining financial corrections to be made to expenditure cofinanced by the structural funds or the cohesion fund for non-compliance with the rules on public procurement.
• ERG, UK Government (2011):Best practice guidance

• OECD Recommendation on Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement (EN) OECD (2008)
• OECD Principles for Integrity in Public Procurement,OECD 2009
• Public Procurement in the European Union: Key EC Documents (EN) OECD,EU (2010)
• Principles of Integrity in Public Procurement, OECD(2009)
• Public Procurement manual, US AID (2007)

• Domberger, S., Hall, C.; Li, E. (1995). The determinants of price and quality in competitively tendered contracts. The Economic Journal, 105(433), 1454–1470
• Easterly, W., and T. Pfutze. 2008. Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid. Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 2: 29–52.
• Onur, I., R. Ozcan and B. K. O. Tas, (2012). Public Procurement Auctions and Competition in Turkey, Review of Industrial Organization, 40:3, 207-223.
• Pavel, J. (2010). Analýza vlivu míry konkurence na cenu rozsáhlých staveb dopravní infrastruktury, Politická Ekonomie 3/2010.
• Chvalkovská, J., Skuhrovec, J. (2010): Measuring transparency in public spending: Case of Czech Public e-Procurement Information System, IES Working Paper 11/2010
• Soudek, J., Skuhrovec, J. (2013). “Public Procurement of Homogeneous Goods: the Czech Republic Case Study” IES Working Paper 05/2013. IES FSV. Charles University.

Measuring OECD Responses to Illicit Financial Flows - OECD (2013) document on issues of tax havens and non-transparent ownership structures