Competitiveness is a key element in public procurement policy. To enhance the fairness of the competition, it is important to create a level playing field, exclude transgressors and unscrupulous participants from competitive procurement procedures.
With the aim of providing fair competition in awarding contracts, there are some restrictions on the right to participate freely in the public procurement procedures.

Section 1 of Article 6 of the law on Procurement provides a restriction on participation in public procurement procedures for candidate or tenderer which:
- is bankrupt by a court decision.
- has breached its tax obligation and the amount of unpaid tax is not up to 1 % (but ina any case not more than 50.000 AMD) of the participant’s bid.
-has been the subject of a conviction by a final judgment for committing Commercial crimes, participated in a criminal organization, supported terrorism, involved in corruption,  except for those cases, when the criminal record has been removed.
-has been the subject of an administrative decision for taking anti-dumping actions or abuse of a dominant position in the sphere of public procurement,
- in accordance with the Eurasian Economic Union member state’s legislation has been registered as an unscrupulous participant.
- at the moment of bidding, is still involved in unscrupulous participants' list
In general terms, the exclusions from public procurement take the form of restrictions on the right to participate freely in the public contracts procurement market as far as the above-mentioned reasons are still existing. It’s important to note, that these restrictions do not apply to non-competitive procurement procedures.