Russia. Amendments to the Law on the State Procurement Contracting System

The Russian President signed the draft of the Federal Law “On Amendments to the Federal Law “On the Contracting System in the Area of Procurement of Goods, Work, Services for Governmental and Municipal Needs””. The State Duma has adopted the Law on the 23rd of May and the Federation Council has approved the Law on the 28th of May.

The document envisages the following changes:

• Specification of the conceptual framework currently in use;
• Introduction of the definition of total annual amount of procurements, and specification of the procedures in order to apply the substantiation methods with respect to the contract price and procurements’ execution from the small enterprises;
• Definition of specifics of procurements’ for customer’s activities in foreign jurisdictions;
• Possibility of low-scale procurements amounting up to RUB 2,000 thousand or up to 5 percent of total annual volume of procurements, not exceeding RUB 50,000 thousand in total, from the sole supplier;
• Lifting of the documentary evidence on the impossibility to use other methods to determine the supplier (except for procurement execution from the sole supplier (contractor), as well as the price and other substantial contractual terms in certain cases;
• Extension of the list of cases when procurement is allowed from the sole supplier (contractor);
• Extension of the list of cases when customers should be allowed to carry out the expertise of the delivered goods (work, services) without experts involvement.

Source: pharmvestnik.ru