Procuring entities in each Party will grant equal and non-discriminatory access to government tenders in excess of the agreed monetary thresholds to suppliers from other Parties to the Trans-Pacific SEP.

The agreed threshold for goods and services (excluding construction services) is Special Drawing Rights (SDR) 50,000 (~S$120,000). The threshold for construction services is SDR 5 million (~S$12 million). The Parties have committed to call for an open tender except for specific situations such as extreme urgency or those connected with the protection of exclusive rights (such as patents or copyrights). In calling for open tenders, the government entities should publish a notice of intended procurement and provide sufficient time for suppliers to respond to the notice.

Under the chapter, most Chilean central government agencies and 13 regional governments have been listed as committed entities. New Zealand has listed all departments under the NZ Public Service as covered entities. For Brunei, all central government agencies save for Brunei's Mini-Tender Board(*) have been listed as committed entities.

(*) However, Brunei has to give an undertaking to freeze the upper threshold of the mini-tender board at SDR 110,000 and to try to bring it down to a lower value in subsequent years.