Treasury named the most common mistakes in public procurement for the first half of 2020
The Treasury has released a review of fiscal irregularities for the first half of 2020. These include errors in public procurement. Customers made a significant part of them when calculating the NMC and executing the contract. Let's focus on the main ones.
Violations in the calculation of the NMC
Most errors are related to the use of incorrect price information. So, when calculating the NMC, you do not need to use:
offers, contracts, and information with product characteristics (works, services) and (or) delivery conditions that do not correspond to the purchase;
offers with delivery terms that are not comparable to the planned purchase (for example, in terms of terms of performance of obligations);
information about prices from suppliers (contractors, performers) with non-identical goods (works, services) in comparison with the planned purchase. For example, the NMCC of cleaning services justified information from the sole proprietor in the field of restaurant services;
information about prices from sources that are not related to the public offer.
The Agency also noted violations due to incorrect use of methods for determining the contract price (for example, they used a different method for determining the NMC, but did not justify why).
Violations in the performance of the contract
From a number of deficiencies in the performance of the contract can be identified such:
arbitrarily changed the terms of the contract (for example, set in advance);
not attracted provider to liability for breach of contract (e.g. late delivery of goods);
incorrectly calculated the penalty, namely, used the key rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which was not valid on the date of the claim, or made an arithmetic error.
In addition, the Agency drew attention to violations during acceptance under the contract: they
accepted a product (work, service) that is not provided for in the contract;
accepted and paid for work that was not actually completed;
they did not issue acceptance documents, and there was no reasoned refusal of it either;
did not use the purchased product for the intended purposes.
Document: Review of shortcomings and violations identified by the Russian Treasury in the first half of 2020