THE CENTRALIZATION OF PROCUREMENT ACTIVITIES OF THE REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Abstract

Federal law No. 44-FZ «On the contract system in the procurement of goods, works, services for state and municipal needs» specify the possibility of organizing centralized purchasing. Centralization of procurement may be carried out at the level of subject of the Russian Federation (government procurement), at the level of subject of the Russian Federation - municipality (state and municipal procurement) with the appropriate agreement between the region and the municipality and also at the municipal level (municipal procurement). Since the legislation does not stipulate any restrictions, imposed on the conditions of procurement centralization and does not provide any uniform models of such centralization, the issue is essentially at the mercy of the subjects of the Russian Federation. As a result, at present each subject of the Russian Federation Russian constructs the model in accordance with its needs and peculiarities of organization of the management system of the region. Conditionally grouping existing models of centralized procurement according to general features, the author, using several indicators, compares groups of models between themselves and with the decentralized model, identifying positive and negative aspects of each of the groups. The research is based on the analysis and generalization of information from 64 regions of Russia.