Article 21. Specialized Organization

A specialized organization shall be a legal entity that has the right to provide, on behalf of the state customer, services for organizing public procurement of goods (works, services) on the basis of a contract on a paid basis.

The state customer shall have the right to involve a specialized organization in order to organize the conduct of procurement procedures.

The determination of the essential terms of the contract and the signing of the contract shall be carried out exclusively by the state customer.

The involvement of a specialized organization shall be carried out by the state customer on the basis of the requirements and criteria defined by this Law.

A specialized organization must meet the following requirements to provide services for the organization of public procurement:

have the status of a legal entity;

absence of other subjects of public procurement among the founders of a specialized organization;

have at least one employee with practical experience in providing services related to the organization of public procurement;

have available software and hardware tools that provide access to a special information portal.

A specialized organization shall have the right to receive from the state customer the necessary information to provide services for the organization of procurement procedures, except as otherwise provided by legislation.

A specialized organization shall be obliged to:

submit, at the request of the state customer, a report on the work done at any stage of the organization of the procurement procedures;

provide services in compliance with the basic principles of public procurement;

submit, at the request of the authorized body in the field of public procurement, information on compliance with this Law and other acts of legislation to the Commission for consideration of complaints in the field of public procurement;

take measures to prevent unscrupulous participants in procurement procedures from participating in public procurement;

determine the person responsible for organizing the procurement procedures for each public procurement;

organize procurement procedures based on the requirements of this Law and other acts of legislation.

A specialized organization shall provide the following services: