Mandatory competition will be held for projects of unique objects from 2023

 An architectural competition will be mandatory for the development of the sketch design of objects of public importance.  This is stated in the decision of the President of Uzbekistan “On measures to improve the customer service in the sphere of capital construction” adopted yesterday, September 22.

According to the decision, from 1 January 2023, the service of clients under the Ministries of Education, Health, Culture, and Sports and their territorial subdivisions, and regional customer service offices under the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services will be terminated.

The works of the customer service, which are completed, will be accomplished by engineering companies “Single Customer Service” under the administrations.

Until 1 January 2023, the organizational and legal form of the above engineering companies, will be changed to the form of a state unitary enterprise.

From 1 January 2023, the business plan for the servicing of clients of facilities financed by social and production infrastructure development programs and other centralized sources, will be approved by their founder in agreement with the Ministry of Economic Development.

By 1 December 2022, a new version of the regulation on customer service in the field of capital construction will be developed.

It is prohibited to reduce the service fee paid to customer support when optimizing the project cost or capital assets limits.

Until 1 April 2023, the system “Transparent construction” will be introduced as a platform for assessment of entrepreneurs performing technical control.

From 1 January 2023, the architectural service will hold an architectural competition for the development of a sketch design of unique and particularly significant objects of public importance.

According to the decision, the Research Institute for Technical Standardization and Standardization in Construction will be established in the form of a state institution on the basis of a technical standardization center in construction and a republican standardization center in construction.

By 1 July 2023, an open electronic system will be created that will allow citizens to get acquainted with all documents issued for construction, and conclusions made during construction control, indicating geolocation.