THE ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION BY A CUSTOMER OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ENSURING THE PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY WITHIN THE PUBLIC AND MUNICIPAL PROCUREMENT CONTRACTING

The previous legislation on placing orders for supplies of goods for state needs did not contain any special norms specifying the principles of functioning of the procurement system. On the contrary, the law on the contract system, which came into force in 2014, determines clearly the list and nature of principles that should guide customers when implementing state and municipal procurement. The key principle is the principle of responsibility for the procurement performance and efficiency. The paper describes the approaches to the possibility of evaluation of the implementation of the procurement performance and efficiency principle, and, using various methods of analysis, evaluates this principle implementation by the public customer of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The evaluation was carried out in three directions. The analysis of procurement performance from the point of view of the economy shows that its application as the key efficiency criterion is not always reasonable as it forces both a customer and a supplier to overvalue the initial contract price. The analysis based on the integral estimation shows that the application of this technique allows determining the weak points of procurement activity and identifying the ways of procurement efficiency improvement.    

The assessment on the base of the construction of an econometric model indicating the dependence between the number of the auction participants and the economy achieved in its result allowed formulating the conclusion on the reasonability to use widely the electronic auctions when procuring that will contribute to the increase in the number of participants and, consequently, the procurement efficiency improvement in general.