Questions

Central Asia Procurement is independent of the state. Its members are individuals, and only they vote. People from state bodies and quasi-state companies join in their own name, in the same way as anyone else. Public institutions are invited to the public sessions in Astana.

Central Asia Procurement is being founded as a not-for-profit association. Membership fees will be set to cover its costs, and the statutes will require board members to declare their interests in a public register.

It will be funded by members’ fees and by institutional partners, the organisations that employ procurement people.

Central Asia Procurement plans to publish a standard of what a procurement professional needs to know, and to work with the training providers whose courses follow it. Its own activities are the peer sessions, the public sessions, the survey and the report.

Membership is for anyone whose work is procurement or depends on it. That includes buyers, supplier teams who prepare tenders and bids, contract managers, lawyers, auditors and teachers of the subject.

Yes. Membership is open to people whose work depends on procurement, including supplier teams who prepare tenders. The statutes will set the voting rights of each membership category.

The expected fee is around 40,000 tenge a year. The founding group will set it after the survey. Until the association is registered, the founding group pays the costs of the survey and the website.

Individual answers are shared with nobody, your employer included. The founding report shows only totals. Your name and organisation are never published and are never linked to your answers in the report.

This website and the survey are in Kazakh, Russian and English. The language of each session will be announced with its date.

The Law on Public Procurement of 1 July 2024 has applied since 1 January 2025. Where a complaint is allowed, a bidder has 3 working days to file it through the portal, and the buyer decides it within 3 working days. Results picked automatically by the portal cannot be challenged this way (Article 25). Under the Public Procurement Rules, a supplier on the register of Kazakhstani producers receives a 50% advance payment.