President of Georgia
Initially, an independent State Procurement Agency had been established in 2001 by Decree 223 of the President of Georgia. The agency with which it was soon to be linked, the Free Trade and Competition Agency, was created in 2010 by Decree 143 of the President of Georgia. These two agencies were then merged into the Competition and State Procurement Agency, which was established, on 1 January 2012, by Decree 829 of the President of Georgia.