On April 9th, 2018 President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Law No. 472 “On Public Procurement” developed by the National Project Management Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan together with interested ministries and departments in pursuance of the resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 31 July 2017 No. PP-3166 “On the measures on the further reform of the system of state and corporate purchases of goods (works, services)”.
The adopted Law will ensure openness and transparency of state purchases, competitive struggle of entrepreneurs in this sphere and will allow to effectively use the funds of the State budget, centralized sources and enterprises with a share of the state.
The law defines five types of procurement procedures, two of which completely exclude the human factor in decision-making on state procurement. In other procurement procedures, transparency is provided by publishing the necessary information on special information portal.
For the first time, taking into account international standards, this type of procurement procedure is introduced, such as purchasing from a single supplier.
Before the adoption of the Law, this sphere was regulated more than 30 normative legal acts, at the same time there was no integrity of the public procurement system, as a result of which legal conflicts arose. Multistage reconciliation and duplicate procedures created the prerequisites for corruption and entailed a significant loss of time.
The law takes into account the experience in the implementation of public procurement, as well as international practice, including the main provisions of the model legislation of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the laws of the European Union, the United States, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries. Discussions were held with international organizations, including the World Bank, expert and business community, representatives of ministries and departments.
