Czech Supreme Control Office (NKÚ) will build its own new headquarters. The office is currently finalizing a tender for the project manager, who will oversee the construction. The NKÚ will leave the space it had been leasing at CZK 16.7m annually from CPI since 2007. The new building will cost CZK 689m to build and will accommodate 400 staff in 5,000 sqm of office. The building will also host the Parliament Library. The Supreme Control Office had been fighting with the finance minister Andrej Babiš, who considered the project as uneconomical and refused to release funding from the state budget. The Supreme Control Office will invest CZK 230m from its own coffers for the building, which will be built on a site in Holešovice, Prague 7, that the Supreme Control Office has owned since 2004. The project is scheduled for completion in 2020. NKÚ’s lease contract with CPI ends in 2022.
