Public contracts only
with an electronic construction diary
An unobtrusive change, but one that fundamentally changes public contracts. Since January, a new law has been in effect in the Czech Republic, which orders cities, municipalities and other public institutions to ensure the maintenance of an electronic construction diary during major construction projects. If you want to apply for public contracts, you have to prepare for it as the owner of a construction company.
At Stavario, we prefer a mason's spoon and smart algorithms. But still, we have to grind a little between the paragraphs. From 1st January 2021 was put into effect new act referred to as linear law. Its goal is to accelerate the construction of highways, railways, gas pipelines, high-speed Internet and similar important infrastructure of the state.
However, this standard also includes a change in the rules for the execution of the construction diary. Specifically, this is § 152, in which you will find the following paragraph:
For a building that is the subject of a public contract in the above-limit regime, the builder is obliged to ensure that the construction diary is kept in electronic form.
We are builders, not lawyers. Therefore, we will not go into detailed analyzes of what an over-limit public contract means. It changes every year and also depends on the type of contractor. In general, these are rather larger buildings for at least units of millions of euros.
The obligation to keep the diary electronically will be yours
Contractors of construction contracts from the public sector are aware of the new obligations. And naturally they will demand it from the supplier. Therefore, it is up to you to prepare yourself before:
- the town hall in your city will issue a tender for the repair of children's playgrounds in housing estates,
- the regional office will start looking for a company to insulate the secondary school,
- the Ministry of the Interior will draw up tender documentation for the construction of a training center for police officers.
Or before the competition starts for any other job you grind your teeth on as a construction company owner. Unfortunately, you cannot get it without an electronic construction diary.
"If I can make one prediction, I expect that the electronic keeping of the diary will be so popular at town halls and offices that they will soon require it even for smaller orders worth hundreds of thousands of crowns," says Stavaria founder Josef Beneš about the change in rules.
You will also like the electronic construction diary
An electronic diary has the potential to fundamentally change how your business works. And for the better. Thanks to him, the construction manager:
- he doesn't have to slavishly fill in data about weather or worker attendance - because the diary will do it automatically,
- easily matches photos with construction progress,
- he adds videos or any document he takes with his mobile phone.
You can give access to the electronic construction diary to the investor to see what is happening on the construction site. You won't be calling him regularly or writing endless emails.
Take an important step towards obtaining a public contract and try for yourself how the electronic construction diary works. We have prepared a simple demo for you that will convince you in a few hours about the benefits of digitizing your company.
