State Procurement Agency
Government procurement agency
Mongolia's specialised state procurement body: the professional purchasing body responsible for organising and implementing procurement operations under the Law on Procurement of Goods, Works and Services with State and Local Funds, distinct from the procurement department housed in the State Property Policy and Regulation Agency (Transparent Public Procurement Rating, assessment of Mongolia's procurement law, Article 53). It operates in the system whose single official e-procurement portal is tender.gov.mn.
The earlier procurement office was closed by government resolution in July 2016. Parliament supported re-establishing a state procurement office on 29 October 2019, to organise state procurement transparently and openly, avoid corruption and conflicts of interest, and support national producers (Voice of Mongolia, 29 October 2019). The Open Government Partnership later noted that delayed establishment of the State Procurement Agency had stalled a transparency commitment (OGP Transitional Results Report 2019-2021).
RECORD
Legal role as professional purchasing body
Mongolia's procurement law provides that the professional purchasing body is the Government Implementing Agency responsible for the organisation and implementation of procurement operations under the law, with aimag and capital-city governors heading local procurement units for purchases financed from state and local budgets (Transparent Public Procurement Rating, quoting Article 53 of the procurement law).
Public engagement in procurement - OGP 2021-2023
In Mongolia's 2021-2023 Open Government Partnership action plan, Commitment 3 on public engagement in public procurement was led by the State Procurement Agency - described by OGP as the only commitment in the plan initiated by a government agency. It aimed to fully digitise public procurement, add open-data principles to the procurement law, limit awards to companies with high corruption risks, and increase citizen engagement in evaluating bids (OGP Action Plan Review 2021-2023).
The June 2023 procurement law
Mongolia's end-of-term self-assessment for 2021-2023 reported that the revised Law on the Purchase of Goods, Works and Services with State and Local Funds was approved by Parliament in June 2023. It includes clauses to reduce the human factor, create an electronic database to prevent duplicate bidder documents, make all stages of tender selection transparent, and separate the working groups that develop tender documents from those that evaluate tenders to prevent conflicts of interest; the implementing organisations were the Ministry of Finance and the State Procurement Agency (OGP End-of-Term Self-Assessment 2021-2023).
Open contracting and tender.gov.mn
Under the earlier OGP commitment on procurement transparency, the government published tenders, contract amounts, participating bids and outcomes on the e-procurement website tender.gov.mn, and worked with the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank on aligning procurement data with the Open Contracting Data Standard (Open Government Partnership, commitment MN0031).
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