Procurement And National Suppliers

Procurement And National Suppliers

Published at www.gratanet.com on 29 April 2015

1. Introduction

As many other countries the Republic of Kazakhstan (the "RoK") during many years takes relevant measures to protect interests of national suppliers of goods, works and services ("GWS").

Such protection becomes of importance taking into consideration volumes of GWS procurement conducted in Kazakhstan. Below are publicly available official data regarding volumes of procurement in 2013¹.

Quasi-public procurement means procurement of:

1. companies of JSC National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna's ("Samruk") group, i.e. companies which are for ≥ 50 % of voting shares (equity) (in)directly owned by Samruk); and