Article 17. Powers of Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Field of Public Procurement

The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall:

ensure the formation and implementation of the state policy in the field of public procurement;

take measures to rationally use the funds of the budgets of the budget system in the field of public procurement, improve and expand the use of types of procurement procedures, as well as the wide participation of business entities in them;

coordinate the work on control over the activities of state customers in the field of public procurement;

determine the methods and criteria for evaluating and comparing proposals of participants in procurement procedures, as well as the procedure for organizing their conduct;

establishes the procedure for submitting proposals in electronic form for participation in the tender and two-stage public procurements for the selection of the best proposals by the participants of the procurement procedures;

establishes the procedure for conducting the preliminary qualification selection and procurement procedures among qualified participants;

establishes the procedure for carrying out centralized public procurement and the centralized procurement body;

establishes the procedure for concluding a framework agreement;

approves the composition of the commission for reviewing complaints in the field of public procurement, and also establishes the procedure for its review of received complaints;

ensures the development, approval, and implementation of state programs in the field of public procurement.