Public Procurement Act (2017)

The purpose of this Act is to ensure the transparent, purposeful and economical use of the financial resources of the contracting authority, the equal treatment of persons and the effective use of existing competition in public procurement. This Act provides for the public procurement procedures, the rights and obligations of subjects involved in public procurement, the procedure for the exercise of state supervision and for the settlement of requests for review, and the liability for violation of this Act. For the purposes of this Act, ‘public procurement’ means purchasing supplies, contracting for services, organising design contests, contracting for public works, awarding public works concessions and service concessions by contracting authorities, and contracting for public works by concessionaires of public works concessions.