Bidding in Czechia: the country kit

Not legal advice. Rules and portals change: check the buyer's documents and the official portal.

Written notes last reviewed on November 15, 2026.

For a bidder from abroad

What a company from another country usually runs into. Each line names where you can check it.

Portals

Notices are published in the Věstník veřejných zakázek and on each buyer's profile, where the documents are. The bid goes to the electronic tool the buyer uses: the national one (NEN) or another.

Check it at Věstník veřejných zakázek, Národní elektronický nástroj (NEN)

Getting the documents

The procurement documents can usually be downloaded without an account. Sign in anyway: only a registered reader is told when the buyer changes them or answers a question.

Check it at Věstník veřejných zakázek

Account to submit

To submit you need an account on the platform the notice names. Open it days ahead: some platforms check a new company by hand.

Check it at Věstník veřejných zakázek

ESPD and eCertis

The European Single Procurement Document is accepted as a first proof that you are suitable; here it is called JEOO (jednotné evropské osvědčení pro veřejné zakázky). eCertis shows which certificates of your own country match the ones asked for.

Check it at eCertis (European Commission)

Registers and lists

The list of qualified suppliers (seznam kvalifikovaných dodavatelů) is voluntary: an extract from it replaces the proofs of basic and professional qualification. A company from another state proves the same with the documents of its own country.

Check it at Portál o veřejných zakázkách (MMR)

Language of the bid

Bids are usually written in Czech. Certificates in another language usually need a translation; the documents say whether it has to be certified.

Documents in Slovak are usually accepted without a translation.

Check it at Věstník veřejných zakázek

From the register

Counted from the notices Aperlena reads. These lines change as the register does.

Sources we read

Notices above the EU thresholds also arrive through TED, the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily.

Open now

1,892 open notices. See them

Busiest sectors: Construction work (408), Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals (332), Architecture & engineering services (228)

Time to bid

Open procedure above the EU thresholds: usually 27 to 34 days from publication to the deadline (median: 31, from 22,137 notices).

Open procedure below the EU thresholds: usually 9 to 15 days from publication to the deadline (median: 12, from 1,349 notices).

Language of the notices

Czech

Currency

Amounts are stated in CZK. Aperlena shows a conversion to euros beside them.

Working days

Deadlines on Aperlena count working days on the national calendar of Czechia: Monday to Friday, without the national public holidays. Regional holidays are not counted.

The next national holidays on a weekday: November 17, 2026, December 24, 2026, December 25, 2026, January 1, 2027

After the award

Not legal advice. The periods run from the day the decision is sent to you. Check your award letter and national law before you rely on any of them.

EU minimum We hold no national figures for Czechia. Shown is the minimum every EU and EEA state has to give under the Remedies Directives (89/665/EEC and 92/13/EEC, as amended by 2007/66/EC). The national period may be longer.

Standstill period

Usually 10 calendar days from the day after the decision was sent (15 when it was not sent electronically).

The buyer usually may not sign the contract before it ends.

Time to challenge

Usually 10 calendar days from the day after the decision was sent.

The periods are the ones for contracts above the EU thresholds. Below them national rules differ, and some awards have no standstill at all.

On the page of an awarded notice the periods are counted from its award date, with a letter asking the buyer for its reasons. Awarded contracts in Czechia

Bidding in Czechia: the country kit

For a bidder from abroad

From the register

After the award

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