Are complaints from potential suppliers about unsubstantiated requirements of the tender documents by customers that were filed after the time limits for desk checks have expired to be considered?

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    Question

    Are complaints from potential suppliers about unsubstantiated requirements of the tender documents by customers that were filed after the time limits for desk checks have expired to be considered?

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    In accordance with paragraph 17 of the Rules for the Conduct of Departmental Control, approved by the order of the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 30 November 2015, 598, departmental control of public procurement is carried out through a competitive process (auction) in the following directions:

    1) First direction: from the day of announcement of the competition (auction) until the end of the comment deadline during the preliminary discussion of the project tender documentation (auction documentation); if preliminary discussion of the draft tender documentation does not take place - within five working days from the date of posting of the text of the announcement on public procurement by way of competition;

    2) Second direction - within five working days and/or until the deadline for receiving applications from the day of posting on the web portal a protocol of preliminary discussion of the draft competition documentation.

    Thus, the internal state audit bodies carry out desk-level monitoring of compliance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on public procurement in the first and second directions within the above-mentioned deadlines.

    According to paragraph 591 of the Rules for the Conduct of Public Procurement, the grounds of complaint are subject to examination within the framework of desk control in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on state audit and financial control, in the manner provided for by this chapter and article 25 of the Act, shall not be examined.

    On the basis of the above, cases that are subject to desk control but have been submitted after the time limit for the desk control has expired shall not be reviewed.

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