Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act.

This Act concerns rules for public procurement and the disposal of assets and arrangement for the execution and maintenance of works of public interest. Such arrangement involves the mobilisation of private sector resources for the purpose of public financing, construction, operation and maintenance of development projects or concessioning and includes financing by Build Own Operate (BOO), Build Own Transfer (BOT), Build Own Operate Transfer (BOOT) and Public Private Partnership (PPP). "Public asset" shall include land except land held by the Uganda Land Commission or a district land board or land which is compulsorily acquired by Government in accordance with the law.
The Act establishes the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Appeals Tribunal. It also defines "procuring and disposing entity" for purposes of this Act. The Authority shall be a body corporate and shall: (a) ensure the application of fair, competitive, transparent, nondiscriminatory and value for money procurement and disposal standards and practices; b) advise the Government, local governments and other procuring and disposing entities on procurement and disposal policies, systems and practices and where necessary, on their harmonisation; (c) set standards for the public procurement and disposal systems in Uganda; (d) monitor compliance of procuring and disposing entities; and (e) build procurement and disposal capacity in Uganda.
The Act also concerns preferences schemes and reservation schemes for public contracting. Subject to the economic and social policies of Government and the international obligations of Government, preference shall be given to domestically manufactured goods and Ugandan contractors and Ugandan consultants. To promote particular sectors within specified geographic areas, specified public procurement contracts or parts of a contract shall be subject to reservation schemes.