The President of
Ukraine signed the Law "On Public Procurement", which approves
the full transition of public procurement to electronic system ProZorro.
The transition will take place during 2016 in two stages: from April 1, all
purchases will be transferred to the electronic mode in the central
authorities and state-owned enterprises, while from August 1 – the rest
of those interested in public procurement.
A public
procurement reform is one of the most effective reforms carried out by the
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. It includes several directions,
including training of buyers, simplification of access forbusiness to
trading procedures and introduction of tenders in
electronic format.
The system of electronic public procurement ProZorro is
running in a pilot mode since February 2015, but the system already
contains over 50 thousand tenders worth UAH 12 billion from over 2.9
thousand customers. Overall budget savings have already exceeded UAH 680
million and continues to grow.
Maxim Nefiodov,
Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine reminded
that the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the President
of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko repeatedly emphasized the need to switch to an electronic
system of state procurement. Only a full transition to ProZorro, without
any exceptions, will afford to achieve the main objectives of the
reform: to increase transparency of tenders, provide better access
for business, to make bidding more competitive and reduce corruption
risks. The full-scale launch of the system will allow the State to save up
to UAH 50 bln annually, as the Ministry’s experts
estimate losses in public procurement through inefficiency and corruption
schemes. In 2016 the calculated saving is planned at the level
of UAH 5 billion.
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