(2025-05) Decree Setting New Public Procurement Thresholds and CNMP Prior-Control Thresholds

Conseil Présidentiel de Transition d'Haïti (CPT) • 2025

Summary — This arrêté, adopted by the Conseil Présidentiel de Transition on the report of the Prime Minister, revises upward the monetary thresholds above which state institutions, public enterprises, mixed enterprises and territorial collectivities must use formal public-procurement procedures and above which the CNMP exercises prior control. It replaces the thresholds set by the Arrêté of 1 June 2012, which the text says no longer reflect economic reality after years of currency depreciation and inflation.

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Key Findings

General procurement threshold for state institutions raised to 7,000,000 HTG.
CNMP prior-control thresholds set at 35M (works), 20M (supplies), 15M (services) HTG for central administration.
Tiered thresholds apply by commune category, from 3M HTG (department capitals) down to 2M HTG (ordinary communes/sections).
Replaces the Arrêté of 1 June 2012, citing currency depreciation and inflation as justification.
Below-threshold purchases follow simplified 'demande de cotations/prix/propositions' or lighter procedures.

Full Description

Issued in a special edition of Le Moniteur (Spécial N°38, 16 May 2025) under the Conseil Présidentiel de Transition, this arrêté revises the thresholds established by the Law of 10 June 2009 on public procurement, citing exchange-rate depreciation and rising inflation as having eroded the real value of the 2012 thresholds. It sets the general procurement threshold for state administration institutions (central administration, legislative and judicial branches, independent institutions) at 7,000,000 gourdes, with CNMP prior-control thresholds of 35,000,000 gourdes for works, 20,000,000 gourdes for supplies and 15,000,000 gourdes for services and intellectual services. Lower, tiered thresholds apply to departmental capitals and specific large communes (3,000,000 gourdes general threshold), arrondissement capitals (2,500,000 gourdes) and other communes and communal sections (2,000,000 gourdes), each with its own CNMP control thresholds by nature of contract.

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Time Coverage

2025 — 2025

Keywords

public procurement, marchés publics, CNMP, procurement thresholds, public financial management, Conseil Présidentiel de Transition, Le Moniteur, gourde depreciation, inflation, territorial collectivities, public enterprises, prior control, series:mef-arretes

Entities

Commission Nationale des Marchés Publics (CNMP), Conseil Présidentiel de Transition, Régine Abraham, Smith Augustin, Louis Gérald Gilles, Fritz Alphonse Jean, Frinel Joseph, Edgard Leblanc Fils, Laurent Saint-Cyr, Emmanuel Vertilaire, Leslie Voltaire, Cour Supérieure des Comptes et du Contentieux Administratif (CSCCA)