Application of fundamentally responsible public procurement, according to the Public Procurement Act, to improve the procurement environment in the Czech Republic

The topic of this diploma thesis is an introduction to the principles of responsible procurement enshrined in the public procurement law and the possibility of applying some topics and opportunities of responsible procurement in the field of public procurement in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part of the work focuses primarily on the individual provisions of the public procurement law, which are an expression of the transposition of Directive No. 2014/24/EU as a fundamental legal source regarding aspects of responsible procurement at the level of the European Union. In this part of the work, the most important methodological opinions on responsible procurement are also described, as well as individual concrete opportunities for socially responsible procurement, while the possibilities and limitations in their practical application in public contracts are outlined. As part of the practical part, I focused on public contracts related to the construction project of the new headquarters of the Supreme Audit Office, in which I identified a considerable extent of the use of innovative methods in procurement and the contracting authority's efforts to make the widest possible practical use of the principles of responsible procurement. The conclusion of the diploma thesis deals with ways of implementing the principles of responsible procurement in the process of awarding public contracts.