<p style="text-align: justify;">This<a href="images/stories/racionality6.pdf" target="_blank"> Index of Rationality</a> is developed for a group of five products purchased by national and local level institutions in the course of 2012, those being:</p>
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<li> copy paper;</li>
<li> industrial salt;</li>
<li> extra light fuel oil (EL-1);</li>
<li> air-conditioners; and</li>
<li> calico bandages.</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>