U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Private International Law: Working Group I of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services

Résumé

The Advisory Committee's study group is participating in an initiative by the United National Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to revise the 1994 UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services ("Model Procurement Law"), and its Guide to Enactment, available at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/ uncitral--texts/procurement--infrastructure/1994Model.html. The UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law is not binding on the United States, but it is cited and relied upon in many other nations as a model procurement code. The reform effort regarding the Model Procurement Law is being undertaken by UNCITRAL's Working Group I, which has been meeting twice annually, in Vienna and New York, to develop new language for the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law and the Guide to Enactment. The working papers that reflect this effort are gathered at the UNCITRAL Web site, at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/working--groups/ 1Procurement.html. As part of its broader effort to reform the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law to reflect advances in electronic procurement, the UNCITRAL working group has made substantial progress in developing new provisions in the mode