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CHAPTER II
PARTICIPATION BY THE PUBLIC AND BUSINESS OPERATORS IN ANTI-CORRUPTION
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Section 16. In the interest of transparency in public procurement, a State agency
shall cause the public to have participation in the observation of any of the processes of the

procurement of the State agency as provided in this Chapter.

Section 17. In the execution of section 16, the A.C.C. Committee may require the

conclusion of an integrity pact under the programme for co-operation on anti-corruption in public
procurement under section 18. In this regard, the procurement requiring the conclusion of such
integrity pact shall be as prescribed in the Notification of the A.C.C. Committee as published in

the Government Gazette, having regard at least to the cost estimate of the procurement, anti-
corruption measures, corruption-prone procurement and expediency of the operations of State

agencies as well.
The A.C.C. Committee may determine procedures other than that under paragraph
one to facilitate public participation in public procurement, as prescribed in the Notification of
the A.C.C. Committee as published in the Government Gazette.

Section 18. An integrity pact under the programme for co-operation on anti-

corruption in public procurement shall be made in the form of a mutual agreement between the
State agency initiating the project in question and business operators intending to tender
proposals, wherein the State agency initiating the project and the business operators intending to

tender proposals shall agree to refrain from corruption in the procurement, and there shall be
observers with the knowledge, expertise or experience necessary for the procurement project
concerned, who shall observe the procurement from the process involving the drafting of the

scope of work or details of supplies to be procured and the drafting of solicitation documents
through the completion of the project. Observers must be of impartiality and have no interests

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