The Public Procurement Rules 2008 - LGED

(9) "Conflict of Interest" means any situation where personal or business
interests of any Person in a public Procurement transaction would adversely
affect the interest of a Procuring Entity in achieving economy, efficiency,
transparency, fairness and equal treatment of Tenders or Proposals;
(10) "Consultant" means a Person under contract with a Procuring Entity for
providing intellectual and professional services;
(11) "Contractor" means a Person under contract with a Procuring Entity for the
execution of any Works under the Act;
(12) "Contract Price" is the price stated in the Notification of Award and thereafter
as adjusted in accordance with the provisions of the Contract.
(13) "CPTU" means the Central Procurement Technical Unit, established by the in
the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the Ministry of
Planning, for carrying out the purposes of the Act and these Rules;
(14) "Days" means calendar days unless otherwise specified as working days;
(15) "Dayworks" means work carried out following the instructions of the Procuring
Entity or the authorised project manager and is paid for on the basis of time
spent by the Contractor’s workers and equipment at the rates specified in the
Bill of Quantities (BOQ), in addition to payments for associated Materials and
Plant;
(16) "Defect" is any part of the Works not completed in accordance with the
Contract;
(17) "Defects Correction Certificate" is the certificate issued by Project Manager
upon correction of defects by the Contractor;
(18) "Defects Liability Period" is the period named in the Contract and calculated
from the Completion Date;
(19) "Delegation of Financial Powers" means the instructions with regard to the
delegation of financial authority, issued by the from time to time, relating to the
conduct of public Procurement or sub-delegation of financial powers under
such delegation;
(20) “Delegated Procurement” means a procurement undertaken by a specialised
Procuring Entity on behalf of a Ministry, Division, Department or Directorate
when the beneficiary entity delegates the task to such Procuring Entity.
(21) “e-GP” means procurement by a Procuring Entity using electronic processing
systems.
(22) "Evaluation Committee" means a Tender or a Proposal Evaluation
Committee constituted under Section 7 of the Act;
(23) "Evaluation Report" means the report prepared after the evaluation of s,
Tenders, Quotations, Expressions of Interest or Proposals;
(24) "Force Majeure" means an event or situation beyond the control of the
Contractor, a Supplier or Consultant that is not foreseeable, is unavoidable,
and its origins not due to negligence or lack of care on the part of the
Contractor; such events may include, but not be limited to, acts of the
Government in its sovereign capacity, wars or revolutions, fires, floods,
epidemics, quarantine restrictions, and freight embargoes;
(25) "Form" or "Format" means a form or a format appended to these Rules and
to the standard Documents issued there under;
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