The Committee on Economic Policy recommends that the Parliament should reject the draft law on amendments to article 16 of the Law “On State Procurement” re bringing applicable legislation in line with the Constitution of Ukraine and the Agreement on Free Trade between Ukraine and the EFTA states

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
10 July 2013, 15:46

 
The bill (Reg. No. 2247a) suggests amend qualification criteria, established by the customer while making procurement at the cost of the state. In particular, the customer can establish qualification criteria in regard to whether the participant of procurement has “equipment and material and technical base” merely and not demanding presence of “his/her own productive capacities and / or service centers in Ukraine”, as stipulated by the existing requirements of part 2 of article 16 of the Law “On State Procurement”.