Reform
of public procurement is one of the most successful reforms. Yet at the first stage it shows a real result: budget savings in the e-
procurement system ProZorro exceeded UAH 500 million. It is
necessary to consolidate this positive effect and to develop it by adopting the
Law "On public procurement", which will expandProZorro across
the country, said Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine
MaximNefyodov.
According
to him, the average amount of savings from planned procurements in the
electronic system makes up about 12-18%. By maintaining the existing level of savings and the total amount of
purchases at UAH250 billion (data of 2014) as well as by the full
transition to ProZorro the state is to save about 30-45 billion per
year. And this means taxes, social benefits, financing of state programs. In
fact, the state will get a huge internal source of funding in the amount of
$1.5 billion annually.
He
stressed the need to keep the pace of reforms and to ensure full transition to
the e-system already in 2016. The public
procurement law provides a basis for the transition to an electronic system of
procurement undertaken by public funds. "Everything has been prepared
for the adoption of the Law" On public procurement."We have carried
out the necessary work, the document is very balanced, based on the
experience of thousands of transactions of a pilot project. Now it is for
MPs to decide. They just have to pass this law in the first reading this
week, otherwise it will mean the sabotage of one of the most important
reforms in the country," he added.
The ProZorro project
and public procurement reform are very important in terms of combating
corruption.Earlier it was just impossible to collect systematized
and generalized information about public procurement in real time. ProZorro system
can provide new tools for monitoring and make public those things that previously were
carefully hidden.
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