{"id":2731,"date":"2026-02-23T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alrashidi.law\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:22:34","slug":"uncitral-model-law-on-public-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alrashidi.law\/en\/uncitral-model-law-on-public-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no doubt that the challenges facing the governments of the world in the field of public procurement were the reason for establishing a system for public procurement, which is meant to be the set of rules and principles that regulate the process of purchasing goods, services, and projects carried out by government entities, with the aim of ensuring transparency and equality, enhancing competition, obtaining the best value for public money, as well as promoting economic development. (1)<\/span><\/p>\n

Since procurement constitutes a large part of public expenditure in most countries of the world, this prompted the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to prepare model legislative provisions on the procurement of goods, construction, and services. It prepared the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement in 1994, (2) with the aim of reforming public procurement systems. This Model Law ensured the incorporation of elements of objectivity, fairness, participation, competition, and integrity, and made transparency a fundamental principle among its principles.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the 1994 Model Law on Public Procurement was and still is an important international reference in the field of procurement law reform, and in view of the development of economic conditions and modern technological advancement, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law saw in 2004 that it was necessary to work on updating the 1994 Model Law on Public Procurement so that it would keep pace with new practices, especially those resulting from the use of electronic communications in public procurement. Accordingly, the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement of 2011 was prepared as an update of the rules set out in the 1994 Law in accordance with the latest legal systems for procurement.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no doubt that the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement of 2011 enjoys great importance, as procurement under its provisions is characterized by involving discretionary decisions taken on behalf of the government, and procurement represents 10\u201320% of gross domestic product and up to 50% of total government expenditure. It also enables the State to develop procurement in a way that achieves revenue generation and prevents irregularities at the same time, thereby achieving economic development. (3)<\/span><\/p>\n

Definitions relating to some terms of the 2011 Model Law on Public Procurement<\/b><\/p>\n

The 2011 Model Law on Public Procurement set out several definitions in Article 2 thereof for the purposes of the Law, and we will limit ourselves to mentioning the most important of them as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n