25 Arab L.Q. 103 (2011)
Legal Analysis of the New Saudi Procurement Regulations

handle is hein.journals/arablq25 and id is 107 raw text is: *It. Arab Law Quarterly BRILL Arab Law Quarterly 25 (2011) 103-114 brill.nl/alq Legal Analysis of the New Saudi Procurement Regulations Ibrahim Alhudaithy Assistant Professor and Head of the Legal Department, King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Abstract Improving procurement and developing better products and services have been priority aims for the Saudi government since the 1990s. In the late 1990s, the government began to introduce several economic and legislative changes with the intention of developing the public sector. Among the main aims of this approach were simplification and moderniza- tion of the Saudi public procurement regulations and opening up the competitiveness of the market place. This article explores public procurement regulations in Saudi Arabia and focuses in particular on analyzing the New Procurement Regulations and comparing the New with the Old Code. Keywords legal analysis; new Saudi procurement regulations 1. Introduction The Saudi Council of Ministers issued its Royal Decree No. M/58, dated 4/9/1427 AH (1 October 2006), to enact the New Code for Competition and Government Procurement Regulations (hereafter called the New Code) to supersede the Old Government Procurement Regulations' (hereafter called the Old Code), and to end 30 years of the Old Code. The New Code consists of 81 articles divided into 13 parts. In the Old Code, there were 14 articles and 40 Implementing Regulations. The New Code starts with main principles and ends with general regulations as explained in this article. I Government Procurement Regulations, Royal Decree No: M/14 dated 7/4/1397 AH (1977). Q Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10. 1163/1573025 10X531773

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