New Structure to Begin Work at End of Month for Control of Public Procurement

The Liquidation Commission of the State Procurement Agency (SPA) in the coming days to complete its work. The new structure for the control of public procurement at the State Service for Antimonopoly Policy and Consumer Protection (SSAPCP) will start operations by the end of this month, he told Turan, former chief of staff of SPA Alakbar Guliyev.

The liquidation commission listed 20 people, about half of the former employees of SPA. This factor, he explained the reason for not updating a database of information on the results of public procurement from October 2015.

Presidential Decree on the Elimination of SPA was signed on January 15 of this year. The duties and responsibilities were transferred to SSAPCP. The Cabinet of Ministers was in a month's time to prepare and submit to the President a draft of the new Regulation on Public Service, the structure and the number of its employees of the new organization.

It should be noted that the law "On state purchases" effect from December 2001. Since then the law has undergone a slight change.

At the local and foreign press published a lot of flock in which the documents are based on the facts of violations of tender legislation, appropriation of public funds in various ways, which become possible because of the numerous "loopholes" in the law. The government does not respond to such publications. --08B-