Enforcement Rules of the Government Procurement Act Article 71

For a procurement of a value reaching the threshold for supervision, where the lowest tender under award consideration exceeds the government estimate by more than four percent but not more than eight percent, an entity may make the award with reservation and report it to its superior entity for approval. The report shall include reasons thereof along with the government estimate, the course of price reduction, and a comparison sheet of tender prices or a record of tender opening, etc.Where an award is monitored by a supervising personnel of the superior entity, the award approval referred to in the preceding paragraph may be made by the supervising personnel either at the time of monitoring within his/her authority or after his/her reporting it to his/her entity.