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1. 4. 2025 · Press releases
HAVEL & PARTNERS Joins Affordable Housing Initiative and Support for Efficient Construction of Municipal ApartmentsHAVEL & PARTNERS joined the Affordable Housing Initiative and prepared model contractual and tender documentation to help Czech municipalities build rental apartments faster under a new standardised design & build model.
12. 10. 2021 · Significant Matters
HAVEL & PARTNERS acted as legal advisor to the Czech Ministry of Defence in connection with the purchase of the SPYDER Israeli air defence systemHAVEL & PARTNERS, led by partner Petr Kadlec, advised the Czech Ministry of Defence on the intergovernmental contract to buy Israel's SPYDER air defence system from Rafael Advanced Defense Systems for CZK…
17. 9. 2021 · Publications and newsletters
CJEU decision alters the framework agreement awarding practiceThe CJEU ruled in case C-23/20 Simonsen & Weel that contracting authorities must state both the envisaged and maximum quantity or value in framework agreement contract notices, departing from established Czech public…
31. 12. 2020 · Publications and newsletters
NEW RULES OF RESPONSIBLE PROCUREMENT AS OF 1 JANUARY 2021An amendment to the Public Procurement Act, effective 1 January 2021, adds socially and environmentally responsible procurement and innovation to the basic procurement principles under Section 6, with contracting authorities now required…
7. 12. 2020 · Articles and Interviews
Procurement of quality legal services by the State – science fiction or reality?HAVEL & PARTNERS lawyers Štěpán Štarha and Ján Kapec argue that Slovak public procurement of legal services should weigh quality far more heavily than price, noting that EU institutions such as the…
18. 6. 2020 · Publications and newsletters
Amendment to the Public Procurement Act and objections to sector-specific below-the-threshold contractsA forthcoming amendment to the Public Procurement Act clarifies when suppliers may raise objections to below-threshold and sector-specific procurements, drawing on case law of the Regional Court in Brno, and was in…
8. 6. 2020 · Publications and newsletters
A fundamental decision of the Regional Court in Brno in connection with the Public Procurement Act and the purchase of shares, business shares and businessesThe Regional Court in Brno ruled on 27 May 2020 that buying shares, business shares or businesses falls outside the Public Procurement Act, quashing the Office for the Protection of Competition's 2018…
27. 3. 2020 · Publications and newsletters
Coronavirus and extension of time limits in administrative proceedingsFollowing the Ministry of the Interior's opinion on the COVID-19 state of emergency, Czech administrative bodies may waive missed statutory deadlines case by case, including the 31 March 2020 deadline for suppliers…
20. 3. 2020 · Publications and newsletters
State of Emergency – Fast Purchasing, or the Pandemic and Public ProcurementHAVEL & PARTNERS explains how Czech contracting authorities can urgently procure COVID-19 supplies via the Emergency Act's security exemption or negotiated procurement without publication under Section 63(5) of the Public Procurement Act.
22. 8. 2019 · Articles and Interviews
Amendment to act on register of public sector partnersA September 2019 amendment to the Slovak Register of Public Sector Partners Act narrows the registration duty, sets a 28 February beneficial-owner verification deadline, adds joint and several liability for statutory bodies,…
8. 1. 2019 · Significant Matters
Advising the City District of Prague 6 on the sale of lucrative land plots for residential constructionHAVEL & PARTNERS advised SNEO, owned by Prague's City District 6, on selling a 90% stake, with an option on the rest, in a 1.2-hectare Na Dračkách development plot to Penta Investments'…
