The Public Procurement Regulatory Authority is an autonomous body endowed with the responsibility of prescribing regulations and procedures for public procurements by Federal Government owned public sector organizations with a view to improve governance, management, transparency, accountability and quality of public procurement of goods, works and services. It is also endowed with the responsibility of monitoring procurement by public sector agencies/organizations and has been delegated necessary powers under the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority Ordinance 2002.
The Federal and the Provincial procurement rules exist under the Ordinance. Bids for Government projects whether related to construction or power by law must be in total compliance with these rules.
Most often we see large multinationals ending up filing Writ Petitions challenging the government rules on procurement when their particular bid fails to succeed.
At the federal level the the Government has made some long over due changes to the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority Ordinance 2002 including a sub section for redressal of individual bidder grievances.
