The proportion of rejected applications for municipal purchases decreased by 9.3%

(Kazan City KZN.RU, May 10, Anton Nozdrin). The proportion of rejected applications of municipal customers for electronic auctions has decreased from 17.5% to 8.2% after the new procurement management regulations to ensure the city's municipal needs. Director of the Directorate for Competition Policy and Procurement Gregory Kharitonov reported on the work to streamline and improve procurement of Kazan municipal customers today at the Business Monday in the City Hall.

According to him, a number of organizational, methodological and information tools is introduced or in the stage of implementation. "Directorate developed and approved the rules of procurement management for municipal needs of the city, which define the procedures and terms of interaction between the participants, the procurement process at all stages of its life cycle," - G.Haritonov said. Within the framework of the regulations typical user's description of the characteristics of the purchase facility is developed, which clearly spells out uniform interpretation of symbols of performance characteristics specified in customers, suppliers, contractors, performers. The measure, according to G.Haritonov, already brought a number of positive aspects, including a reduction in the number of substantiated complaints and increase of understanding of the procurement process by participants. G.Haritonov said that until the approval of the regulations on electronic auctions proportion of rejected applications was 17.5%. Following regulatory approval deviations share dropped to 8.2%.

G.Haritonov also said that a draft of model provisions on procurement is already developed. Head of the Directorate for Competition Policy and Procurement stated that the need to develop is due to a number of factors affecting the efficiency and transparency of the procurement process. In addition, the project will allow the control of the flow of the city budget.

The work on informatization of the procurement process was carried out to improve the system. The speaker said that it automates to generate all the necessary forms and documents at all stages of the procurement process. The head of the institution also said that thanks to integration with unified information system duplication of data and the impact of human factors on the purchase eliminate.

According G.Haritonov, the implementation of these instruments will maximize the process of standardization of municipal procurement, make it transparent and user-friendly and will help to avoid possible conflicts of interest.

Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin noted that in the work carried out during the year significant results were achieved and requested to convey information about changes in the system to all the subordinate institutions. "Transparency of municipal procurement is our policy, which we have every year and try to adhere to improve the mechanisms for this work", - the Mayor concluded.