You enter the persons who take part in the procurement on behalf of the contracting authority, and the company IDs of the bidders. From public registers we find out whether any of the persons is or was a statutory representative, partner or supervisory board member of a bidder, and whether the bidders are connected to each other through a common person or ownership. You get findings to check and a protocol for your file. Free, no registration, nothing is stored.
Statutory representatives, committee members and employees who prepare the contract or evaluate the bids. First name and surname are enough. Municipality of residence and date of birth are optional and make a match more certain. The date of birth is never stored; it is compared only as a fingerprint from which the date cannot be read.
Search for a company by name, or enter its company ID. The register we draw on does not cover sole traders or foreign companies. The protocol lists them as unverified.
You have not added any bidder yet.
If the contracting authority is a company or another entity in the register, enter its company ID. We will also check the links between it and each bidder.
Checking the registers. With a large number of companies this can take up to half a minute.
The result is shown only in your browser. We do not store names or dates of birth and do not write them into any records. So that nobody can flood us, the server counts checks by an encrypted fingerprint of the IP address, without the content of the check. There are 20 checks per hour per IP address and at most 60 persons with a date of birth. Opening a company from the findings uses up one of the daily partner checks.
Business partner checkProtocol created by the Conflict of interest check tool on matu.sk. The findings are prompts for checking, not a legal assessment.
We look for whether the person entered is or was a statutory representative, partner, authorised signatory or supervisory board member of a bidder, or whether they are its beneficial owner or partner in the Register of Public Sector Partners. We show former functions with the end date, so that you can see the period.
We look for common persons, ownership links and a common owner. Such links may suggest that the bids were not submitted independently. We give the same registered office only as a note, because many unrelated companies can have their seat at one address.
If you enter the contracting authority's company ID, we look for a short path between it and each bidder through common persons and ownership. For each path you see who is in it, what function they held and in what period.
Act No. 343/2015 Coll. on public procurement regulates in § 23 the situation where a person who may take part in preparing or running the award of a contract, or influence its outcome, has a direct or indirect financial, economic or other personal interest that could compromise their impartiality and independence. The contracting authority must prevent and remove a conflict of interest. For the exact wording, and how the law elaborates on conflict of interest, see the act on Slov-Lex. This page is not legal advice and does not decide whether a conflict of interest exists.
Family links, that is a spouse, sibling, parent or child, cannot be found from the registers, because they are not in them. Also left out are sole traders (natural persons who do business under their own name), foreign companies, and employees who have no function entered in a company. The register shows only what is entered in it, and shows a new change only once it has been entered. So the fact that we find nothing does not mean that no link exists. If a source is not available or is older, the protocol says so explicitly and does not mark the result as complete.
We distinguish three levels. A certain match means that both the name and the date of birth agree according to the Register of Public Sector Partners. A probable match means that the name and the municipality of residence agree. A name match only means that just the name agrees, or the municipality differs. Example: Ján Novák from Nitra, who is the managing director of a bidder from Nitra, is a probable match. Ján Novák whom you entered without a municipality is a name match only, and in the register it may be a completely different person. Every such match needs to be verified. The Register of Legal Entities does not contain dates of birth, so we can confirm a certain match only for persons who are in the Register of Public Sector Partners (beneficial owner or partner). We warn you about this for common names.
No. We do not store names, municipalities or dates of birth, we do not write them into any records, and the date of birth is not returned in the response. The server compares it only as a fingerprint from which the date cannot be read. You see the result only in your own browser, and it disappears when you close the page or click Clear all. You can save it yourself as a PDF or CSV. We only count the number of checks from one IP address in the last hour, under an encrypted fingerprint without the content of the check.
The functions of persons in companies come from the Register of Legal Entities, which is kept by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic and published as open data under the CC BY 4.0 licence. We hold our own copy of it, which is refreshed every night. The date of birth of beneficial owners and partners comes from the Register of Public Sector Partners, kept by the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic. We refresh a copy of it about once a day as well. The protocol header shows, for each source, the date to which the copy is current. If it is older, we say so.
No. The protocol is an aid that you can attach to your file as evidence of what data from public registers you checked on a given day. It does not replace the sworn statements of employees and committee members, or the contracting authority's own assessment. The law does not require you to use this particular tool, and using it does not relieve you of responsibility for preventing a conflict of interest.
Besides links, you may also want to know whether a bidder has debts to the state, is in liquidation or bankruptcy, and has a valid VAT ID. See the business partner check by company ID.
Business partner checkWe process the conversation and the data you enter in line with our privacy policy. We send the chat transcript to the accountant and, once you confirm your address, to you as well.