(1) A Public Procurement Monitoring Office under the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers shall be established in order to monitor procurement activities, (2) The chief of the office under Sub-section (1) shall be an employee of the gazetted special class of the civil service of Government of Nepal.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section until the Public Procurement Monitoring Office is established pursuant to Sub- section (1), the Office of the Financial Comptroller General may function as the
Public Procurement Monitoring Office for not exceeding six months.