Government to Apply Texts of Public Procurement Law

The recommendations of the supplementary report to the draft law defining the rules for public procurement, members of the Council of Government demanded the need to expedite the release of the regulatory texts of the new law.

The report, which was read by the Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly’s Economic and Financial Affairs Committee, included several recommendations, most notably the continuation of efforts aimed at digitizing the procedures for concluding public deals, as well as the rest of the administrative functions related to them and the entire financial sector with the need to enable the contracting partners to receive their financial dues on time, avoid procrastination in the payment process, and expedite the issuance of visas on the books of terms at the level of the transaction committees or the status of the financial controller.

The supplementary report also recommends that the appendices be subjected to controlled and adequate studies by giving them enough time, obliging the contracting authority to schedule approval of the appendices, especially the closing appendices, and not relying on the price standard alone in the evaluation process and paying more attention to technical criteria in choosing the best offer.

The report also calls for paying utmost attention to the content of the books of terms before launching any tender, to achieve efficiency in the management of public funds, accelerate the pace of issuance of the implementation texts of this law, and work to install the National Council for Public Procurements as soon as possible.

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Salieh Goudjil, valued the content of this supplementary report prepared by the Economic and Financial Affairs Committee, considering it a “guiding regulation for the government” in the field of implementing the text of this law, given that it included political considerations and the essential recommendations raised by the committee in its report as well.

This came after the unanimous approval of the members of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, on the draft law, where the representative of the government, the Minister of Transport, Youcef Cherfa, confirmed that the text adds another brick in establishing the legal system for the economic reforms that were initiated by the country’s public authorities under the leadership of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.