The mechanism laid out in the peruvian legal system for state entities and companies’ procurement, is through selection procedures as established in the 1993 Constitution. This is materialized through the State Procurement Law. However, this law contains some cases that don’t allow its application. Within these exceptional cases, we find contracts of up to 8 tax units —UIT—. In this sense, from the revision made to  the Procurement Law, its Regulations, the Supreme Decrees related to public procurement, the Directives, the OSCE opinions and our experience as a professor in Public Procurement, we have been able to realize that the legal framework for procurement up to 8 tax units is not clearly established, except in the aspects related to their registration in the SEACE, as provided in paragraph 2 of article 5 of the Law and subclause a) of article 11.2 of the Directive N° ...

The mechanism laid out in the peruvian legal system for state entities and companies’ procurement, is through selection procedures as established in the 1993 Constitution. This is materialized through the State Procurement Law. However, this law contains some cases that don’t allow its application. Within these exceptional cases, we find contracts of up to 8 tax units —UIT—. In this sense, from the revision made to  the Procurement Law, its Regulations, the Supreme Decrees related to public procurement, the Directives, the OSCE opinions and our experience as a professor in Public Procurement, we have been able to realize that the legal framework for procurement up to 8 tax units is not clearly established, except in the aspects related to their registration in the SEACE, as provided in paragraph 2 of article 5 of the Law and subclause a) of article 11.2 of the Directive N° ...