IINTERNATIONAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENTS

  • In order to award consultancy contracts, procurement contracts for goods or the construction of works in the projects financed by Multilateral Development Agencies, in some cases the bidders are required to attend the different stages of the procurement process. These adjudication procedures may be of a private nature, when certain companies are expressly invited and no public announcement is made, or they may be public. In the latter case, public procurements may be restricted to the local area, admitting only companies from the borrower’s own country, while international public procurements also allow foreign companies to take part.
  • International public procurements are formal procedures for buying products, for building something or for receiving a service through executive agents (generally governments or other government bodies). A public announcement of the invitation to procurement is made, the bids are received and then they are evaluated according to objective, publicised criteria. The contract is then awarded to the bidder making the most advantageous proposal.
  • Procurement procedures are similar throughout the different international bodies. They are characterised by the fact that the party responsible for performing the project is the borrower (the country receiving the project) as opposed to the lender (the international organisation), which must scrupulously monitor compliance with the rules governing the procedure.
  • In the case of procurements invited by the Multilateral Institutions and Development Agencies, bids will be considered eligible if, in addition to fulfilling the requisites of the contract, the bids are made by companies located in countries belonging to these organisations, whether these are borrowing countries (recipients of funds) or non-borrowers (donors). As Spain is a non-borrowing member country of the main Institutions and Multilateral Agencies, our companies can compete in such international procurements.
  • As is the case in public contracting procedures in different areas in Spain, this field requires compliance with a series of legal, technical and economic requirements that are specified in the technical and administrative sections of the procurement documents, and which must be certified in writing. In addition, there is a requirement for technical-type proposals covering aspects that go beyond purely economic factors. These are needed to guarantee the seriousness of the proposals and compliance with the contracts. Contracts awarded by public procurement demand extra efforts from companies in certain areas in comparison to conventional exports between two private bodies. This is a way of internationalising that presents the company with a new client, which is governed by specific rules and is subject to well-defined procedures that will regulate the terms and conditions of the contract.
  • In the international procurement area, there are three main types of contract, each of which functions according to its own specific rules:
    • Works:Building all types of civil works.
    • Supply: Acquisition of all types of products.
    • Services: Performing viability studies, detailed technical studies, environmental impact studies, controlling and following up works, technical assistance, etc.
  • Lastly, it important to note that the world procurement market turns over approximately 89,000 million dollars every year.