There are 2 types of suppliers: individuals and legal entities.
Individual persons are any professionals or technicians, individual merchants, and individual consultants who wish to provide a service or sell a good to the State.
Instead, legal entities are companies, both national and foreign, foundations, associations, or NGOs that provide a service or sell a good to the State of Guatemala, as long as it is within their normal course of business.
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RGAE:
In 2018, the General Registry of State Acquisitions (RGAE) was created. It is the body of the Ministry of Public Finance responsible for registering suppliers so they can participate in acquisitions made by the State of Guatemala under any of the purchasing modalities regulated by the State Contracting Law.
The RGAE operates electronically and aims to enable suppliers in the registration or pre-qualification process, as applicable.
The Registration procedure is used by State Providers, in order to participate in events in the Guatecompras system, they must be enabled. This is done once a year, and they have until January 31st to register, otherwise the Guatecompras system will be blocked.
Suppliers who are registered can only participate in direct purchase and low-value events.
Pre-qualification is for government suppliers who wish to participate in quotation, bidding, and/or open contract events. In this process, they choose specialties in which the supplier wishes to demonstrate financial, technical, specialty, and experience capacity.
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Account Inventory
Other important requirements to become a state supplier include registering and enabling an account with the Ministry of Public Finance.
This process is carried out at the National Treasury, and its purpose is to register the supplier's monetary account in order to receive monetary deposits in quetzales from State Entities and their Payment Beneficiaries through electronic transfers.
This procedure can be completed electronically.
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Work and Social Security Solvency
As of July 1, 2022, entities subject to the State Procurement Law that conduct procurement in the modalities of Quotation, Bidding, Open Contract, and Electronic Reverse Auction must require the submission of said solvency, which is issued by the Registry of Labor and Social Welfare Violations of the Ministry of Labor, in the contest rules.
