Research · Updated: October 24, 2026 · 9 min read

Uzbekistan Contractor Rating: Class D Opens 82% of Tenders but Rarely Wins

The Minstroy contractor rating (reyting.mc.uz) decides whether your company can bid in government construction tenders on tender.mc.uz — and how many points it scores once it does. (Minstroy is Uzbekistan's Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services.) Many assume that publicly funded construction requires a high rating class. The data says otherwise: according to the Tanlo database, in 82% of 2026 contractor tenders the minimum requirement was the lowest class of all — D. But class D only gets you through the door; it does not win the contract. Here we break down which class you need for which lot, what else the platform checks, and how to raise your score legitimately.

Tanlo data as of October 24, 2026: 12,921 contractor tender notices on tender.mc.uz from January 5 to October 13, 2026 (excluding re-announcements — 10,499 projects, with the same share requiring class D: 82.7%). Rules are based on Cabinet of Ministers Resolutions No. 699 and No. 46 as currently amended. Links are at the end of the article.

What the Minstroy rating is and who is in it

It is an industry-wide electronic rating of construction companies, run within the national Shaffof qurilish ("Transparent Construction") system. The rules are set out in Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 699 of November 9, 2020.

• No application is needed. Uzbek legal entities whose main activity is construction and installation work are added automatically. The statistics agency supplies the list once a quarter.
• Scores are calculated without the company's involvement — from data held by the tax authority, the statistics agency, the Ministry of Poverty Reduction and Employment, the construction inspectorate and other agencies. Financial indicators are updated annually, everything else monthly. The Shaffof qurilish system itself cannot alter this data.
• Foreign companies are not included in the rating.
• Design firms have a separate rating on the same portal, for companies licensed to carry out design work (see our breakdown of design tenders).

The scale: 12 classes from AAA to D

A company's class depends on what share of the maximum possible score it has achieved (clause 16 of the rating regulation):

A high class also means real money. The 5% retention of the contract value is normally released to the contractor 12 months after the acceptance certificate is signed (clause 6 of Resolution No. 46). Companies in groups A and B receive it immediately on handover, with no warranty holdback period (clause 17 of the rating regulation).

Which class you need for a tender

The minimum class is set by the table in clause 26 of the tender regulation (Resolution No. 46), based on the lot price including VAT and the project's hazard category. There are four categories: I is low hazard, IV is very high. Amounts in the regulation are expressed in BRV (base calculation amount; 1 BRV = 440,000 soums).

The strictest requirement in the table is BB. Group A classes are not required for eligibility in any lot. On top of the class, however, the law requires a "positive score" in the rating: a company whose penalty points have wiped out its entire score will not be admitted to a tender.

If no bids or only one bid were received, the client may lower the requirement by one step; if the rating requirement was the reason, the platform lowers it automatically without changing the price (clause 27). This is probably why the data includes DDD and DD requirements that do not appear in the table: they are the steps between C and D. Of the 194 lots requiring DDD, 142 are category III projects, where the table calls for C.

What the data shows: class D unlocks most lots

The combined starting price of contractor tenders over this period was 40.5 trillion soums, and 51% of that (about 20.6 trillion) went to lots requiring class D. Among lots below 8.8 billion soums, class D was required in 83–91% of cases; the rest were mostly category III projects, which need C. Among more expensive lots, class D was never the requirement. Competition is real: a completed class D tender attracts 5.1 bidders on average, and 17% of such tenders failed to take place.

How the rating turns into tender points

There is no procurement committee on tender.mc.uz — the platform performs its role (clause 2 of Resolution No. 46). It calculates scores using the formula in clause 35:

Final score = rating score × 0.8 + price points (up to 20) − N × (rating score × 0.05)

N is the number of projects won in the current year: as the same clause explains, 5% of the rating score is deducted for each contract not yet completed, including direct awards. The more unfinished projects you have, the lower your result.

You can cut the price by 5% at most. The lowest bid gets 20 points, the others are scored in proportion to their discount, and bidding 95% of the starting price guarantees the full 20. That is why almost everyone bids exactly 95% (we covered this in our article on construction tenders), leaving the rating and workload to decide the outcome.

An illustrative example. Both companies bid 95% of the starting price and earn 20 price points each. Company A has a rating score of 60 and three unfinished projects: 60 × 0.8 + 20 − 3 × (60 × 0.05) = 48 + 20 − 9 = 59. Company B has a score of 50 and no unfinished projects: 50 × 0.8 + 20 = 60. B wins: its rating is lower, but it has nothing left unfinished. If scores are tied, the company that submitted its bid first wins (clause 36).

Beyond the class: what else the platform checks

The class is just one of the conditions in clause 23 of the regulation. The platform checks a company by its taxpayer ID (INN) when the bid is submitted and again before results are announced. If even one condition is not met, the bid is rejected:

• Region. Lots below 200,000 BRV (88 billion soums) are open only to companies registered in the same region; Tashkent city and Tashkent region count as one. This restriction does not apply to category III and IV projects (clause 9). If a company changes its registered address without finishing work in its former region, it will not be admitted in the new region until that work is complete.
• Volume limit. Commitments for the current year must not exceed twice the company's largest annual volume of work over the past three years, and the remaining limit is compared with the lot price. Because the limit is based on completed work, a company with no track record has a limit close to zero.
• Debts and restrictions. No overdue tax debts or bank loans, no card index No. 2 (queue of unpaid claims on a bank account) on its accounts, no freeze on its assets. Its VAT payer certificate must be active.
• Reputation. The company is not on the register of unscrupulous contractors or the tax authority's list of questionable enterprises. It has not missed a completion deadline on any project where it is the general contractor, and has no unfulfilled contracts with the Treasury.
• Other. The bid security has been paid, there is no affiliation with the client or other bidders, the company is not in liquidation or bankruptcy, and it holds a license if the type of work requires one.

For contracts below 6,000 BRV (2.64 billion soums), these rules are formally only recommendations, but on tender.mc.uz such lots carry the same requirements.

If you have never won before

The main barrier for a new company is not the class but the volume limit: without completed work, there is almost none. The exact limit and a breakdown of your rating score are shown in your tender.mc.uz account (clause 19). The realistic path is to first build up an official volume of work where no such limit applies: subcontracting, private and corporate projects (see our article on private construction tenders for how to find them). Official revenue and delivered projects lift the financial indicators in your rating. Check in your account which volumes the platform actually counts toward the limit: the resolution does not spell this out in detail.

How to raise your rating: what actually counts

The current criteria fall into 5 groups of indicators (Appendix 4 to Resolution No. 699):

1. Staff. Officially employed engineering and technical staff, quality-control and occupational-safety specialists, workers with at least 5 years of industry experience, and a relevant degree held by the company's head. Workplace accidents reduce the score.
2. Finances. Revenue, profit and profitability over three years, asset growth, the number of employees for whom personal income tax is paid, average salary, and tax risk. Company age earns 1 point per year, up to 10. A tax debt costs 5 points.
3. Competitiveness. ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001 certificates, international or national.
4. Experience. Projects delivered on time. Minus 1 point for each overdue project, each unfulfilled inspection order and each fine under Article 99 of the Code of Administrative Liability. Purchases of rolled steel with a certificate of conformity also count.
5. Equipment. Company-owned trucks, cranes, excavators, concrete mixers and so on. Data comes from the traffic police (GAI) and inspectorates; leased equipment earns no points.

The weights of the indicators are not published — they are set by Minstroy's methodology. Errors in the data must be corrected at the source: with the tax authority, in employment contracts, in equipment registration.

How to check your company's rating

1. Go to reyting.mc.uz, choose the sector (general construction, land reclamation, roads and bridges, design firms) and enter your taxpayer ID (INN) or company name.
2. Review your class and the score for each indicator — this shows where you are losing the most. A breakdown of your rating score is also available in your tender.mc.uz account.
3. If your company is not in the rating, check that your OKED (main activity code) in the state register is construction and installation work: inclusion is automatic, based on the quarterly statistics list. The portal has a contact form for inquiries.

What to do this week

• Look up your company's class and scores by INN and note the three weakest indicators.
• Check your volume limit in your tender.mc.uz account before choosing lots.
• Make sure the engineering staff and workers who actually work for you are officially employed under the correct job codes, and that company equipment is registered to the company.
• Pay off overdue tax debts: they lower your score and block eligibility.
• Shortlist lots in your region that match your class: in the Tanlo construction tender catalog you can filter them by region and amount and get new ones in Telegram.

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