The Projects, Tenders and Local Content Authority (PTLC) is the name given to the former Secretariat General of the Tender Board by Royal Decree 57/2025. It has legal personality and financial and administrative independence, and reports to the Council of Ministers. The Authority assists the Tender Board, whose legal mandates remain unaffected. For suppliers, the practical starting points are the Authority's website, ptlc.gov.om, and Esnad for registration services and finding tenders.
What should suppliers do?
- Use the Authority's website for its institutional information, legislation and links to Esnad services.
- Check your account on Esnad for your registration details. The website lists registration, certificate renewal and printing, data updates, field changes and grade changes among its e-services.
- Find opportunities through the Esnad public tender list. The Authority's website links to this list under tenders floated in Esnad.
- Confirm the requirements relevant to your bid in the tender notice or on Esnad. Ask the Authority about anything those sources do not resolve.
For account guidance, read how to register on Esnad and the Esnad portal guide. For preparing a bid, use how to bid on Oman government tenders.
In the 1 November 2026 hub snapshot, 870 tenders were open on Esnad, 365 of them published in the previous 7 days.
You can also browse this week's tenders, then confirm the tender information on Esnad.
How does the Authority differ from the Tender Board?
Article 4 of Royal Decree 57/2025 gives the Authority the technical and administrative work and logistical services needed to assist the Tender Board. It also assists the executive committee formed by the Council of Ministers to follow up the local content policy.
Article 7 expressly preserves the Tender Board's mandates under laws and royal decrees. The Authority's work supports the Board; the decree does not remove the Board's legal powers.
Article 8 replaces references in laws and royal decrees to the Secretariat General and its Secretary General with references to the Authority and its President. This explains the different institutional names readers encounter across older and newer documents.
What is its status and who leads it?
Royal Decree 57/2025 was issued on 24 June 2025, corresponding to 28 Dhu al-Hijjah 1446, and took effect on its issue date. It was published in Official Gazette 1602 on 30 June 2025.
Under Articles 2 and 3, the Authority has a President of special grade appointed by royal decree. The President manages its administrative and financial affairs and represents it before others and the courts.
Royal Decree 83/2025, dated 28 September 2025 and published in Official Gazette 1616, appointed Eng. Badr bin Salim bin Marhoon Al Maamari as President. He had previously signed decisions and circulars as Secretary General, including Decision 174/2023 and Circular 9/2024.
Which mandates matter to suppliers?
Annex 1 of Royal Decree 57/2025 lists 32 mandates. The following groups explain the main supplier-facing areas.
Tender administration
Item 10 covers organising technical and financial tender management procedures for transparency, equal opportunity and free competition. Item 12 covers announcing tenders within the Tender Board's jurisdiction, receiving bids from suppliers, contractors and consultancy offices, and opening and studying bids or referring them to the competent entities.
Item 13 covers negotiation in the cases set by the Tender Law. Item 14 covers the executive work of the practice committees formed by the Tender Board. Confirm the procedure for a particular opportunity in its tender notice.
Registration and classification
Item 17 covers classifying and registering suppliers, contractors and consultancy offices, and setting the bases and criteria for evaluating their performance. Read the contractor classification guide alongside your Esnad account details.
The Authority's website lists services for adding a field or sub-field, upgrading or downgrading a registration grade, and resetting a password, as well as registration and certificate services. Check your account on Esnad for your own registration position.
Local content
Items 1 and 3 cover policies for government spending efficiency and local content, plus local content plans, targets and tracking measures across sectors. Item 8 covers reviewing local content requirements in contracts, procurement and tenders under the Tender Law. Item 9 covers supporting SMEs in localising industries through government procurement and projects.
For supplier preparation, read the In-Country Value and local content guide. Confirm the requirements for your opportunity in its tender documents.
Contract review
Annex 1 item 5 covers reviewing draft contracts above OMR 3,000,000 and their change orders, whatever their value, before signing and before execution starts. This mandate applies to units of the State's administrative apparatus and other public legal persons.
Confirm how the review applies to a particular contract with the Authority or the entity concerned.
Procurement and projects
Item 6 covers frameworks to improve government project planning and execution. Item 7 covers organising unified procurement services.
The website's directorates menu lists the Directorate General of Tenders, the Projects Follow-up Office, the Directorate General of Government Procurement and the National Office for Local Content.
What changed over time?
Royal Decree 84/2020 had given the Secretariat General legal personality and financial and administrative independence, with a Secretary General of special grade appointed by royal decree.
According to the Authority's institutional history, Royal Decree 32/2022 amended that decree to restructure the Secretariat General with new divisions for government project and procurement efficiency and stronger local content.
Royal Decree 73/2023, issued on 31 October 2023, transferred contract review mandates from the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs. These covered unified model contracts and draft contracts above OMR 5,000,000 and their change orders before signing and execution.
Article 9 of Royal Decree 57/2025 repealed both Royal Decree 84/2020 and Royal Decree 73/2023. The current Annex 1 item 5 uses the lower threshold above OMR 3,000,000. Do not use the earlier threshold as the current rule.
Get help
The Authority's website lists its address as Street 22, Al Khuwair, Muscat, and its contact centre as 24402244.
The government portal lists general enquiries at [email protected] and working hours of Sunday to Thursday, 8:00 to 14:30. It describes the Authority's work as managing and organising government procurement and tenders, raising spending efficiency and meeting local content targets.
Check your tender match
Start with the tender match check for your business, then confirm the requirements in the official tender notice.
For wider market context, read the Oman tender market report.
Sources
The sources below were verified on 2 November 2026:
- Royal Decree 57/2025 amending the name of the Secretariat General of the Tender Board to the Projects, Tenders and Local Content Authority, setting its mandates and adopting its organisational structure (24 June 2025, Official Gazette 1602).
- Royal Decree 84/2020 on the Secretariat General of the Tender Board (repealed by Royal Decree 57/2025).
- Royal Decree 73/2023 transferring contract review mandates to the Secretariat General of the Tender Board from the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs (31 October 2023, repealed by Royal Decree 57/2025).
- Royal Decree 83/2025 appointing a President for the Projects, Tenders and Local Content Authority (28 September 2025, Official Gazette 1616).
- About us (vision, mission and background).
- Authority website menu and footer (directorates, legislation, Esnad e-services, contact).
- gov.om entity page: Projects, Tenders and Local Content Authority.
- Oman Tender Board e-tendering portal (Esnad) public tender list.
- Decision 174/2023 issuing the Regulation Governing Local Content (Secretariat General of the Tender Board, 6 December 2023, Official Gazette 1525).
- Circular 9/2024 issuing three guides on applying and supporting local content in government projects, contracts and procurement (27 September 2024).
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