Construction contracts from the state continued to decline last year in the Czech Republic

Prague - The volume of construction contracts awarded by the state and public administration continued to decline in 2011. The value of public construction tenders last year decreased by about three percent year-on-year to 118.6 billion crowns, reported the engineering and consulting company ÚRS Prague, which has been monitoring construction contracts for a long time.
The value of contracts for ground construction, that is, for residential buildings and civic infrastructure, fell by 22.5 percent to 36.1 billion crowns last year. In the case of engineering constructions, the state and public administration awarded contracts worth 82.6 billion crowns, which is a year-on-year increase of 9.1 percent. "The growth was mainly reported in contracts for water management constructions co-financed by the Operational Programme Environment," said Zdeněk Kunc, director of engineering activities at ÚRS Prague, to ČTK.
The largest public contract in construction last year was a tender for the reconstruction of a wastewater treatment plant in Prague worth 7.5 billion crowns. Overall, the state and public administration announced seven tenders in 2011, each valued at over one billion crowns.
Skanska won the most public construction contracts last year. It independently won tenders worth 7.2 billion, and in partnership with other firms, it secured contracts worth an additional 2.3 billion. The second most successful company in state construction tenders was Metrostav, followed by Eurovia CS.
The basic source for ÚRS Prague's analysis are the data published in the Information System on Public Procurement of the Ministry for Regional Development.
According to recently published figures from the Czech Statistical Office, Czech construction slowed its decline to 2.3 percent in November last year after an eight percent drop in October.

Development of public construction contracts in the Czech Republic (in million CZK):

Construction Direction	Year 2011	Year 2010	Year 2009	Year 2008
GROUND CONSTRUCTIONS	36.053	46.519	53.380	47.686
Of which: Civic Infrastructure	32.761	41.142	48.416	43.884
Residential Buildings	3292	5377	4964	3802
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTIONS	82.557	75.664	140.631	160.622
Of which: Transportation Infrastructure	27.559	23.721	97.502	116.014
Technical Infrastructure	54.998	51.932	43.129	44.607
TOTAL	118.610	122.173	194.011	208.308

Source: ÚRS Prague