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The General Directorate of Public Procurement (DGCP) established the new thresholds that public institutions subject to the scope of application of Law No. 47-25 must use from April 1st and for the rest of 2026 to determine the selection procedures to be used in the procurement of goods, services, and works.
The provision is contained in PNP resolution 03-2026, which establishes that entities must call for a public tender for the contracting of all works from an amount of RD$406,713,345.70 onwards, as well as those considered "complex works" in accordance with the provisions of the regulations; and for the acquisition of goods and services from RD$6,436,757.51 onwards.
In the case of the abbreviated public tender, the thresholds for goods and services range from RD$6,436,757.51 onwards, when they are common and standardized.
Regarding the drawings of works, the governing body of public procurement establishes that this procedure includes amounts from RD$201,083,538.48 to RD$406,713,345.69, and will apply to non-complex works and minor repairs.
Regarding the new simplified contracting procedure (Equivalent to Price Comparison in the SECP), the ceiling for works ranges from RD$53,622,276.93 to RD$201,083,538.47, applying only to non-complex works and minor repairs; while, in the case of goods and services, the ceiling ranges from RD$2,010,835.38 to RD$6,436,757.51.
In the case of minor works contracting, the ceiling ranges from RD$0.01 to RD$53,622,276.92, provided that they are minor works and minor repairs. In the case of goods and services, the threshold established by the DGCP is set from RD$268,111.38 to RD$2,010,835.37 for common and standardized goods and services. It should be noted that minor contracting is the procedure of lesser amount to contract minor repairs and minor works.
Meanwhile, direct contracting subject to the threshold, formerly known as "purchases below the threshold" in the SECP, the thresholds range from RD$0.01 to RD$268,111.37, for the acquisition of standardized common goods and services.
This adjustment is due to the fact that Law No. 47-25 on Public Procurement, in its article 59, establishes that the DGCP is responsible for annually calculating the upper thresholds for the selection modality to be applied in a public procurement process and establishes the factors to be taken into account for each selection procedure, depending on whether its object is a good, a service or a work.
This article states that the top thresholds are calculated by multiplying the central government's current revenue budget, approved by the Congress of the Republic, by the factors included in said article, as applicable to goods, services or works.
In this regard, in accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of Law No. 99-25 on the General State Budget 2026, for the year 2026 it was approved with an estimate of current income of the central government for an amount of RD$1,340,556,923,171 pesos.
The DGCP reported that this resolution, which is mandatory for all operational units of public procurement of institutions, will be in force until the issuance of another administrative act that replaces it.
