The Stipulation of Trade Secret as a Form of Limiting the Principle of Transparency in Public Procurement Procedure

Abstract

Overviewing the peculiarity of the public procurement procedure, including the matter of primate rules designating standards of the procedure itself, plays an important role in the context of public entities’ activity. The closer look at the essence of mutual relations between the principle of transparency and its restrictions enables to designate a catalogue of terms that justify the granting of protection for entrepreneur’s interest. By characterizing both the need to proper verification of the validity of the limitations over its effectiveness and participants roles in the proceeding, the purpose of the paper is to explore the specificity of the public procurement procedure. The following article provides the basic summary of the most crucial information constituting determinants for an entrepreneur who participates in the proceeding.