Changes in legislation aimed at strengthening criteria efficiency in open tenders for design
Pages 188-196
On January 1, 2014, Federal Law No. 44-FZ On the Contract System in the Procurement of Goods, Works and Services to Meet the State and Municipal Needs (hereinafter, the Contract System Law) came into force. It is the new law on public procurement, which improved tendering procedures, implemented new types of organization and the rules of procurement, as well as adopted new tender evaluation criteria. Such innovations will make the procedure of procurement more transparent and efficient and improve the trading mechanism itself, thus, putting its operation to a brand new level. This article will show tender evaluation criteria based on the previous law (Federal Law No. 94-FZ dated July 21, 2005, On the Placement of Orders for Delivery of Goods, Performance of Works and Rendering of Services for the State and Municipal Needs (hereinafter, the Public Procurement Law) and the new law (the Contract System Law) on public procurement, their comparative analysis and the ways to improve open tender evaluation criteria. Open tender is still challenging in terms of organization and long-term with respect to the period for tendering procedures stipulated by the laws. However, as compared to the Public Procurement Law, the Contract System Law provides for twenty-day period for submission of competitive bids before the date of opening of envelopes from the date of posting the notice of procurement in the unified information system. Criteria, their types and significance applied by the customer based on the feasibility of selection depending on the specific tendering play a primary role at this stage of tendering process. At present, pursuant to Part 4 of the Article 32 of the Contract System Law, the customer must use at least two evaluation criteria in open tendering and the contract price should be one of them. Innovation of the laws also lies in the fact that the law establishes so-called cost and non-cost tender evaluation criteria, namely: the contract price; quality, functional and environmental characteristics of the procurement target; qualification of procurement participants, including availability of financial resources, equipment and other material resources necessary for execution of the contract, presence of goodwill, professionals and other employees of a certain skill level.
DOI: 10.22227/1997-0935.2014.10.188-196
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