Bid security and performance security in Kazakhstan public procurement

How much to provide

Bid security is provided separately for each lot, and the portal checks whether the amount is sufficient. Since July 2026, the Law also allows bid security in the e-shop (1 to 3%), but the specific amount has not yet been set in the Rules.

What can be used as security

• Money in an electronic wallet — the supplier's personal account with the portal's single operator. The money is blocked for the bid and unblocked automatically.
• An electronic bank guarantee. A paper guarantee is allowed only under a special procurement procedure.
• For performance security, advance security and the anti-dumping amount, you can also use a supplier's civil liability insurance contract (договор страхования ГПО) with a sum insured of at least 3% of the contract.

When bid security is returned

The guarantee is returned, and the money in the wallet is unblocked, within 3 business days if:

• you withdrew your bid before the submission deadline;
• the results protocol has been signed, the appeal period has passed and you are not the winner;
• you won, signed the contract and provided performance security.

Unblocked money in the wallet can be returned to your bank account on request — also within 3 business days.

When security is not returned

Bid security is retained if the winner evades concluding the contract or fails to provide performance security, advance security or the anti-dumping amount on time. Besides the money, evasion can lead to inclusion in the unscrupulous suppliers register (РНП) for 24 months.

Before submitting a low-priced bid, calculate whether you have enough working capital for performance security (3–5%) and, if the price counts as dumping, for the anti-dumping amount. This money must be paid within 10 business days after the contract enters into force.

Who is exempt from security

• Organisations of persons with disabilities do not provide bid security in procurements held among such organisations.
• Performance security is not required for e-shop contracts up to 500 MCI (МРП, the monthly calculation index), for most direct single-source contracts, for suppliers in the register of domestic producers (реестр казахстанских товаропроизводителей), under the state social order and when housing is bought from an individual.
• Advance security is not needed under treasury support (казначейское сопровождение) or for suppliers in the register of domestic producers. You can decline the advance fully or partially — then there is nothing to secure.

Once the contract has been fully performed, performance security is returned: a guarantee within 5 business days, money in the wallet within 3.