Today, our colleague Veronika Cukrov gave a lecture at the conference “Public Procurement in Practice – Challenges, Pitfalls, and Solutions”, organized by Tax-Fin-Lex, on the use of artificial intelligence in public procurement. A look abroad showed that AI is already officially helping in some places with preparing tenders, reviewing bids, assessing risks, and communicating with bidders.
In Slovenia, things are different. Apart from the European AI Act, we don’t have much regulation, and even that does not focus on public procurement. The Slovenian Public Procurement Act (ZJN-3) can help us only through its guiding principles. But that doesn’t mean AI isn’t already in use in practice – it just means it’s being used without clear rules, in a gray area that is not subject to oversight.
