Discusses the legal requirements for selling to the host government, including whether the government has agreed to abide by the WTO Government Procurement Agreement or is a party to a government procurement chapter in a U.S. FTA. Specifies areas where there are opportunities.
Last Published: 2/28/2017
According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), foreign sources of supply represented only 0.6 percent of total government procurement in 2013, and Madagascar is neither a member nor an observer of the Plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement.

Nevertheless, as part of its liberalization strategy, the GOM frequently advertises calls for international bids to supply government-funded projects in official and local newspapers.  These bids are opened publicly and tend not to be contested.  The most frequent opportunities are in road construction, supply of computers, consulting, engineering, though there has been an increase in tenders for energy infrastructure projects recently.
The law prescribes that a general notification be published for all intended bids within the fiscal year, and individual notice is communicated in due time either in the daily newspapers, in the official gazette of the government, or on the website of the relevant department or program.

Additionally, international and multilateral organizations often call for international bids for various development projects, to include the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the French Development Agency, and the European Fund for Development, etc.  
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