From request to review
Classify the transaction
For bid for a public supply contract, record the requester, location, scope and responsible receiving office. The receipt identifies the clock and competent jurisdiction.
Gate: Location and competence are recorded
Owner: Public Procurement & Supply AgencyTrace custody and supporting evidence
Assess tender response; reconcile it with ownership disclosure and delivery and labor assurance. A missing document has an explicit alternative-evidence route rather than silent rejection.
Gate: Evidence is complete or an alternative is agreed
Owner: Public Procurement & Supply AgencyObtain the competent clearance
Ask Court of Public Audit for the finding within its own powers. The consultation records the specific unresolved question, evidence version and requested response.
Gate: A specialist finding is recorded
Owner: Court of Public AuditResolve restrictions and conflicts
A supplier must not write an exclusive specification for itself Publish or privately communicate the resolution, including dissent and consent limits.
Gate: The stated safeguard is resolved
Owner: Competition & Consumer AuthorityIssue the commercial determination
An auditable bid entry and procurement review route. The decision also names the accountable official role, effective event, conditions, review office and follow-up duties.
Gate: Reasons, conditions and review route are available
Owner: Public Procurement & Supply AgencyRecord compliance and remedies
Preserve the source record, decision reasons and conditions for bid for a public supply contract. A service complaint routes to the Ombudsman; a contested legal restriction routes to the Union Court.
Gate: Follow-up owner and record custody are named
Owner: Union Ombudsman
Exceptions and alternate routes
Required evidence is unavailable
Record the missing item and propose a witness, existing register reference or independently verified substitute. The completeness review remains open.
Interplanetary communication is interrupted
Record local receipt time and the delegated action available. Preserve a mirrored log for later reconciliation; do not invent a remote approval.
An adverse finding affects the requester
Provide the finding, allow a response, disclose the review route and preserve essential service continuity where applicable.
Institutional interfaces
Audits Union spending and public asset obligations independently.
Makes labor rights portable between worlds and protects workers in dangerous or isolated settings.
Investigates monopoly power and protects residents from unfair commercial practices.
Start the record
Prepare a requestThe assessment behind the stage diagram
The evaluation panel records reasons against published criteria, confirms authorised funding and separates technical acceptance from commercial ranking. Material specification changes reopen the appropriate competition step.
Supplier competence, the tender response and conflict declarations show whether the bid meets the stated requirement. Clarification information must be shared fairly with affected bidders.
Possible decisions and what follows
An award, reserve position, rejection with reasons or an amended competition.
Contract milestones, receiving acceptance, substitutions, custody and performance review remain linked to the award record.
Duties after the finding
Keep the scope accurate
Tell the receiving office about a material change in location, activity, operator, record custodian or requested result. The original receipt remains in the history.
Respect source custody
Provide purpose-specific references and authorised representations. Personal, clinical, commercial and protected scientific records have different access scopes.
Respond to a qualified finding
Read the conditions and the institution that owns them. A request for further evidence identifies the specific unresolved issue and the route for an alternative.
Preserve the follow-up
Contract milestones, receiving acceptance, substitutions, custody and performance review remain linked to the award record.
Disagreement, assistance and evidence alternatives
A completeness query names the unresolved evidence and the alternative the receiving office can assess. An administrative complaint concerns service handling; a legal appeal concerns a finding and its competent remedy. A public petition asks a representative institution to examine a wider issue.