Trade Ministry: Public procurement process will be made more transparent

The mechanism for electronic public procurement will be fine-tuned to make competition more transparent and fair, Pavel Zhukovsky, the head of public procurement at the Belarus Trade Ministry, said during the Belarusian-Russian conference "State and municipal procurement contracts, prospects of cooperation” in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

According to Pavel Zhukovsky, efforts are being made to improve the legislation on public procurement and make the mechanism for electronic procurement more transparent. “When reviewing the complaints from members of public procurement process, we have found out that there are violations on the part of customers. Therefore, free access will be given to the complaints and the results of their review to keep the participants of the electronic public procurement process informed. Procurement bids will be also freely available on the Internet. Currently this information is only available to participants in the procedure,” Pavel Zhukovsky said.

The conference "State and municipal procurement contracts, prospects of cooperation addresses the issues of legal regulation of public procurement in Belarus and Russia, electronic trading platforms and control over the order placement system in Russia, contract negotiation, etc.

Attending the conference are representatives of the Trade Ministry of Belarus, department of competition policy and public procurement of the Eurasian Economic Commission, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, the association of electronic trading platforms, the department of foreign economic and international relations of the Moscow administration and other agencies.