The Index of Rationality no.9 is developed for the following five types of products, i.e. services:

• maintenance of elevators;
• printing of bill forms;
• RTG X-ray films;
• cow’s milk cheese; and
• GPS devices.

The Index of Rationality for these types of products and services was developed by targeting national and local institutions that have procured these products or services in the first half of 2013.

Initially, a total of 53 national and local contracting authorities were addressed with FOI applications inquiring about prices attained for procurement of given products or services. However, due to objective or subjective reasons, as indicated throughout the analysis, in the end the Index was developed on the basis of price information provided by 39 institutions.

The eighth Index of Rationality is developed for the following five types of products, i.e., services:

• work clothing;
• work shoes;
• urban equipment – benches;
• toner cartridges; and
• disinfection, disinsection, and deratization services.

This Index of Rationality was developed by targeting national and local level institutions that have procured these products or services in the course of 2012 and the first two months of 2013.

The seventh Index of Rationality is developed for the following five types of products, i.e., services:

• hygiene maintenance;
• defibrillators;
• beefsteak;
• PVC windows; and
• work shoes – clogs.

The development of the Index of Rationality for the said products and services included 52 institutions at national and local level which procured such products or services within the first eight months of 2012. Solely the data collection range for the procurement of PVC windows was expanded and included 2011.

This Index of Rationality is developed for a group of five products purchased by national and local level institutions in the course of 2012, those being:

• copy paper;
• industrial salt;
• extra light fuel oil (EL-1);
• air-conditioners; and
• calico bandages.

Actually, these products were already targeted and analysed under previous indices developed for procurements implemented in the course of 2010 and/or the first half of 2011, where major differences in price had been noted. Thus, the present Index of Rationality aims to assess possible changes that have taken place in the past period and possible effects of this instrument (index-development) in relation to awareness-raising among contracting authorities on the existence of major differences in price and the need to take measures that would increase their rationality/cost-effectiveness in public spending.