Muscat – His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik issued two Royal Decrees on Tuesday reading as follows:

Royal Decree No 57/2025 amends the name of the Secretariat General of Tender Board, defines its competencies and approves its organisational structure.

• Article 1 amends the name of the Secretariat General of the Tender Board to ‘Authority of Projects, Tenders and Local Content’, according it legal, fiscal and administrative autonomy. The authority will report to the Council of Ministers.
• Article 2 states that the Authority of Projects, Tenders and Local Content will have a chairman, with special grade, who will be appointed by Royal Decree.
• Article 3 states that the chairman of the authority will undertake the management of all administrative and financial affairs of the authority, represent it before other parties and before the judiciary and will have the powers of ‘Head of Unit’ as stipulated in laws and Royal Decrees that are applicable to the units of the State’s Administrative Apparatus.
• Article 4 states that the authority will assist the Tender Board and the executive committee formed vide a Council of Ministers decision to follow up the implementation of local content policies as these (the Tender Board and the committee) exercise their prescribed competencies by conducting all technical and administrative tasks and providing necessary logistic services.
• Article 5 determines the competencies of the authority in accordance with Annex No 1 attached to this decree.
• Article 6 states that the organisational structure of the authority will be approved in accordance with Annex No 2 attached to this decree.
• Article 7 stipulates that the provisions of this decree will not supersede any competencies ascribed to the Tender Board in laws and Royal Decrees.
• Article 8 replaces the two phrases ‘Secretariat General of Tender Board’ and ‘Secretary General of Tender Board’, wherever these might occur in laws and Royal Decrees with the phrases ‘Authority of Projects, Tenders and Local Content’ and ‘Chairman of Authority of Projects, Tenders and Local Content’.
• Article 9 cancels Royal Decree No 84/2020 on Secretariat General of the Tender Board and Royal Decree No 73/2023 on transferring powers related to the revision of contracts from Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs to Secretariat General of the Tender Board, as well as all that contradicts this decree or contravenes its provisions.
• Article 10 states that this decree will be published in the Official Gazette and enforced from its date of issue.

Royal Decree No 58/2025 ascribes public utility status to Sultan Faisal bin Turki Road Project (Dibba-Lima-Khasab) in Musandam.

• Article 1 states that the said road project, as defined in the memo and diagram attached to this decree, is henceforth deemed a public utility project.
• Article 2 instructs the departments concerned to expropriate, through direct implementation, the properties and lands necessary for the aforementioned project, along with installations therein, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Utility Expropriation Law promulgated by Royal Decree No 71/2023.
• Article 3 states that this decree will be published in the Official Gazette and enforced from its date of issue.