Article 46. Restrictions in the Public Procurement Process

During the public procurement process, the following shall not be allowed:

participation in public procurement of a participant in cases where close relatives of the participant and (or) an authorized representative of this participant have the right to make a decision on choosing the executor, and are also representatives of the state customer or a specialized organization engaged by them;

discrimination of participants, provision of benefits or preferences to one participant to the detriment of others, except for the cases provided for by paragraph three of Article 16 of this Law;

conflict of interest;

unlawful choice of non-competitive methods of public procurement, influencing the subjects of public procurement, disclosure of information about the participation of participants in public procurement, unreasonable limitation of their number or overstating the requirements for their qualifications, other forms of preventing, restricting or eliminating competition;

introducing into the text of the announcement of public procurement of illegal requirements that restrict competition among participants;

prior conspiracy of bidders to misrepresent prices or results of bidderʼs selection;

presentation or dissemination of false or distorted information, as well as unreasonable restriction of access to information on public procurement;

splitting the volume of public procurement into parts in order to avoid competitive methods of public procurement;

submission by participants of proposals at artificially low prices with subsequent refusal to sign the contract or to properly execute it;

inclusion in the state procurement of goods (works, services) that are technologically and functionally unrelated;

manifestation of fraud, falsification and corruption;

carrying out public procurements that do not have evidence of the availability of sources and amounts of funding, or for an amount exceeding the amount of allocated funds.