KUWAIT CITY, July 30: In an unprecedented step, the Minister of Justice and Minister of State for Housing Affairs Faleh Al-Raqba formed a work group of engineers and jurists to follow up the state projects for entities subject to the Tenders Law with the aim of accelerating the pace of the documentary cycle of government agencies’ tenders, reports Al-Rai daily.

According to informed sources from the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT), the work group includes a group of engineers, jurists and specialists from within the agency to follow up the vital and developmental projects of the entities subject to the Tenders Law, with the aim of following them up directly, and overcoming any obstacles with the relevant authorities, in preparation for presenting them in board meetings to take appropriate decisions in this regard.

This aims to speed up the pace of the documentary cycle related to the public tenders Law No. 49/2016, with the need to submit a quarterly report to the senior administration of CAPT, and then present it to the concerned minister. This step, which is the first of its kind, would contribute to accelerating many vital projects in the country, as a result of direct cooperation between these authorities and CAPT, by overcoming obstacles that could delay the implementation of vital projects.

The three tasks of the work group are:- 1. Preparing an initial list of government agencies that will be communicated and coordinated with to follow up their work submitted to CAPT. 2. Coordinating with government agencies in following up and fulfilling the requests submitted to CAPT with all the requirements that need to be met in those requests in order to contribute to the speedy presentation on the agenda. 3. Contribute to reducing the average time period and speeding up the documentary cycle of transactions presented to the authority by various government agencies. The sources added that the head of the work group should submit a report every three months for presentation to the Secretary-General of CAPT for performance evaluation.