The Public-Private Character of Activities of the Contracting Entity

Włodzimierz Dzierżanowski, Przemysław Szustakiewicz

Abstract


The aim of the article is to determine the nature of activities of the contracting entity. Public procurement combines the elements of civil, administrative, economic, and financial law. This solution makes the activities of the contracting entity difficult to classify unambiguously as either public or private. Essentially, the contracting entity’s activities are aimed at the conclusion of a civil law contract, but a number of its tasks are of an administrative or public-law nature (e.g., the obligation to publish a contract notice). In addition, contracting entities are subjected to auditing on the part of the economic operators themselves as part of the appeal proceedings and external audit on the part of a specialized State auditing body – the President of the Public Procurement Office. The contracting entity spends public funds, therefore a number of obligations have been imposed on it to ensure the money is spent as efficiently as possible. Hence, it seems that it is the public element that prevails in the contracting entity’s activities.


Keywords


public procurement; external audit; contracting entity; appeal proceedings

Full Text:

PDF

References


LITERATURE

Baehr J., Kwieciński T., Stawicki A., [in:] Prawo zamówień publicznych. Komentarz, ed. T. Czajkowski, Warszawa 2006.

Banaszewska A., Skarga na orzeczenie Krajowej Izby Odwoławczej jako środek ochrony prawnej w systemie zamówień publicznych, Warszawa 2018.

Boć J., Prawo administracyjne, Wrocław 1998.

Fermus-Bobrowiec A., Wybrane zagadnienia dotyczące wykorzystania umowy cywilnoprawnej jako instrumentu działania administracji, “Zeszyty Naukowe KUL” 2018, vol. 61(4), DOI: https://doi.org/10.31743/zn.2018.61.4.125-141.

Gordon Z., Kształtowanie treści umów i stosunków umownych w ramach zamówień publicznych, [in:] Prawo zamówień publicznych. Stan obecny i kierunki zmian, eds. H. Nowicki, P. Nowicki, Wrocław 2015.

Jerzykowski J., [in:] W. Dzierżanowski, J. Jerzykowski, M. Stachowiak, Prawo zamówień publicznych. Komentarz, Warszawa 2018.

Kocowski T., Zamawiający i wykonawcy w systemie zamówień publicznych, “Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu” 2017, no. 497.

Niczyporuk J., Procedura zamówień publicznych, “Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu” 2017, no. 497.

Nowicki H., Cele systemu zamówień publicznych, “Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu” 2017, no. 497.

Stachowiak M., [in:] W. Dzierżanowski, J. Jerzykowski, M. Stachowiak, Prawo zamówień publicznych. Komentarz, Warszawa 2018.

Wicik G., Wiśniewski P., Prawo zamówień publicznych. Komentarz, Warszawa 2007.

Wieloński M., Realizacja interesu publicznego w prawie zamówień publicznych, Warszawa 2012.

Wierzbowski M., Prawo administracyjne, Warszawa 2017.

Zdebel-Zygmunt A., Organizacja systemu zamówień publicznych w Polsce, [in:] A. Zdebel-Zygmunt, J. Rokicki, System zamówień publicznych w Polsce, Warszawa 2014.

LEGAL ACTS

Act of 10 June 1994 on public procurement (Journal of Laws 1994, no. 76, item 344).

Act of 29 January 2004 – Public Procurement Law (Journal of Laws 2019, item 1843, as amended).

Act of 27 August 2009 on public finance (Journal of Laws 2019, item 869, as amended).

Act of 11 September 2019 – Public Procurement Law (Journal of Laws 2019, item 2019, as amended).

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/7 of 5 January 2016 establishing the standard form for the European Single Procurement Document (OJ L 3/16, 6.1.2016).

Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94/65, 28.3.2014).

Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and repealing Directive 2004/17/EC (OJ L 94/243, 28.3.2014).

CASE LAW

Decision of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court of 7 October 2011, II GSK 1932/11, LEX no. 1151674.

Judgment of the CJEU of 20 September 1988, C-31/87, Beentjes (Gebroeders Beentjes v. The Netherlands), ECR 1988, p. 04635.

Judgment of the ECJ of 12 July 1990, C-188/89, Foster v British Gas plc, ECLI:EU:C:1990:313.

Judgment of the CJEU of 17 September 1998, C-323/96, Commission v Kingdom of Belgium, ECR 1998, p. I-05063.

Judgment of the Polish Supreme Court of 13 September 2001, IV CKN 381/00, ONSC 2002, no. 6, item 75.

Judgment of the Polish Supreme Court of 7 February 2013, II GSK 1932/11, LEX no. 1293945.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/sil.2022.31.4.275-293
Date of publication: 2022-12-28 17:33:17
Date of submission: 2021-03-27 14:44:36


Statistics


Total abstract view - 659
Downloads (from 2020-06-17) - PDF - 0

Indicators



Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2022 Włodzimierz Dzierżanowski, Przemysław Szustakiewicz

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.