SECTION 7

(1) The Project Owner may entrust to a Delegated Project Owner, a person governed by public or private law operating in his name and on his behalf, all or part of the following duties: (a) definition of the administrative and technical conditions under which the relevant project will be implemented; (b) receipt of bids; (c) organization and conduct of the contract award procedure up to the signing thereof; (d) management of contracts awarded in the name and on behalf of the Project Owner; (e) payment of allottees; (f) project acceptance; (g) implementation of all actions related to the above-mentioned duties. (2) Besides regional or divisional delegates of government services and public establishments that are beneficiaries of services, delegated project owners shall be heads of Cameroon’s diplomatic missions abroad, heads of purchasing pools set up for bulk orders and centralized purchases, as well as heads of project units receiving external financing. (3) The relations between the Project Owner and the Delegated Project Owner shall be governed by an agreement or any other authorization which, among other things, provides for the duties assigned to the Delegated Project Owner, as well as conditions for the technical, financial and accounting control carried out by the Project Owner at various stages of the project, except regional or divisional delegates of government services and public establishments. (4) The establishment, organization and functioning of purchasing pools shall be laid down by a separate instrument of the Authority in charge of public contracts.