Pursuant to Act No 575/2001 on the organisation of government activities and the organisation of central state administration, as amended, the Public Procurement Office (‘the Office’) is the central state authority for public procurement. In addition to the above, the Office performs supervision of public procurement and other tasks defined under Act No 343/2015 on public procurement and amending certain acts. Objective projektu:Projekt Financing of wage expenditure eligible AK PPO III. (hereinafter referred to as “the project”) aims to ensure the reimbursement of the salary expenditure of eligible staff of the Office, thereby supporting staff involved in the efficient and effective provision of professional tasks carried out by the Office in the context of the control of public procurement in projects co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), while at the same time supporting the avoidance of fluctuations. Activity projektu:Projekt will be implemented through one activity called “Financing of Wage Expenses of the AC PPO”. This activity will continue to stabilise the administrative capacity of the Office (hereinafter referred to as “ESI Funds AF”) necessary for the implementation of the national administration in the area of public procurement control and supervision of public procurement in the framework of projects co-financed by the ESI Funds. The eligible ESIF AKs are 25 staff members of the Office, whose number has been approved by the Government of the Slovak Republic, namely the Slovak Government Resolution No 181 of 11 April 2017 on the Analysis of the Status and Determination of the number of administrative capacities for the European Structural and Investment Funds in the 2014-2020 programming period. These employees shall carry out eligible activities resulting from the cooperation agreements currently in force and shall comply with their description of the activity of the civil servant post. The activity follows the activity of the project entitled “Financing of wage expenditure of eligible AK PPOs” with ITMS 2014+ code 301011D180, which was actually completed in December 2018. The items financed under this project were a group of expenditure 521 – Wage expenditure in the approved financial amount of EUR 2130745.50. The project also builds on the activity of the project entitled “Financing of salary expenditure of eligible AK PPO II”. with ITMS 2014+ code 301011T821, the implementation of which was completed in December 2019. The items financed under this project were a group of expenditure 521 – Wage expenditure in the approved financial amount of EUR 884819.10. The project will be implemented from 01/2020-12/2020 for a total duration of 12 months.  Measurable ukazovateľ:merateľným the project indicator will be the average number of staff reimbursed from OP TA for a total amount of 18, which was determined on the basis of the projected evolution of the number of contracts audited from the ESI Funds, as well as on the basis of monitoring data for the period of implementation of the previous project.