No.S/2017 Pusuc PROCUREMENT AND DisPOsAL OF Pusuc AssETs Cap.22:23 pay for the services provided by the other procuring entity or independent procurement agent concerned. 18 Evaluation committees of procuring entity (1) For each procurement above the prescribed threshold, the accounting officer of a procuring entity shall appoint an evaluation committee in accordance with this section. (2) An evaluation committee shall consist of(a) one member of the procuring entity's procurement management unit; and (b) at least three other members, including(i) the person responsible for preparing the requirements and additionally, or alternatively, the technical specifications for the procurement concerned, or a person with equivalent technical expertise; and (ii) a financial officer of the procuring entity~ and (iii) one or more other members to provide technical, legal, financial or commercial expertise, as appropriate. (3) The member referred to in subsection (2)(a) shall attend meetings of the evaluation committee as an adviser and shall not have a vote on any issue to be decided by the committee. (4) The functions of an evaluation committee shall be(a) receiving from the procurement management unit the bid opening records and bids; and (b) evaluating bids and preparing the bid evaluation report and recommendations for award of a contract; and (c) submitting its evaluation reports to the procurement management unit; and (d) exercising any other functions conferred or imposed on the committee by or under this Act. (5) In the exercise of its functions an evaluation committee shall be answerable to the procurement management unit or accounting officer of its procuring entity. 19 Shared procurement among procuring entities (1) Notwithstanding section 14 ("Responsibility for procurement"), procuring entities may, and if directed by the Authority shall, conduct their procurement by way of shared procurement arrangements which may include arrangements for(a) procuring all their requirements through a procurement management unit established by one of the procuring entities; (b) procuring particular categories of goods, construction works or services through one of the procuring entities with expertise in that type of procurement; (c) procuring goods, construction works or services for common use through one or more designated procuring entities. (2) A procuring entity that conducts procurement on behalf of other entities under a shared procurement arrangement shall be primarily responsible for ensuring that the procurement is conducted in accordance with this Act. (3) Where the Authority considers, on the basis of its review of the annual procurement plans submitted to it by procuring entities in terms of section 22, that- 56