Doha: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued Law Number 24 of 2015 regulating tenders and auctions, reports Qatar News Agency (QNA).
The law will come into effect six months after being published in the official gazette.
The legislation has 43 articles and will apply to all government ministries, agencies, authorities and institutions except Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Petroleum, the police and defence forces and institutions where contracts could be of confidential nature.
The law can be applied to entities that are fully or partially funded by the government. Bye-laws to help implement this law are to be issued by the Minister of Finance.
The law authorises the prime minister to set up one or more tenders and auctions committee, each with a minimum of five and a maximum of seven members, including chairman and his deputy.
One tenders and auctions committee can be set up for several government ministries or departments and each of these departments must send a representative to the committee. All members of the above committee or committees must be public servants. The chairman of a committee or the premier can nominate a member to a committee. A highlight of the new law is that it makes it mandatory for a tenders and auctions committee or several committees to have a member of the State Audit Bureau as a monitoring authority.
The law is liberal and allows heads of state agencies to bypass the tendering process and opt for direct agreements for purchase or procurement of supplies or provision of some service subject to conditions.
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