Ilsur Metshin: “Cost-effective budgetary expenditure is one of the main criteria for evaluating the work of the municipality”

In 2020, the Kazan Municipality saved more than 1 billion rubles on procurement. “With the relatively largest budget among the one-million person cities have learned to work more efficiently, and as a result, the Kazan has a reputation of one of the most dynamic developing cities” – said the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin at today's Business Monday meeting.  

The pandemic has affected most areas of the urban economy, and the procurement sector is no exception. Thus, over the past year, municipal customers initiated and placed 799 competitive procedures for 6.6 billion rubles. Compared to the same period last year, the volume of municipal procurement decreased by 11%, the number of procurement procedures decreased by 30%, head of the Directorate for Competition Policy and Procurement of Kazan Ilshat Salimzyanov reported.

In total, in 2020, the total savings on procurement of local government customers, unitary enterprises and joint-stock companies of the city amounted to more than 1 billion rubles.

“Cost-effective budgetary expenditure is one of the main criteria for evaluating the work of the municipality, officials, and municipal enterprises. Precisely because we know how to work with heart and soul, Kazan is today an actively developing city”, - the Mayor said.

Savings on procurement affected almost all the structures of the municipality, said I. Salimzyanov. To achieve savings at the tender, according to him, it was possible due to the high competition of potential suppliers.