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The Federal Treasury is conducting a pilot project to specify the characteristics of the procurement object in a structured form in a notice in accordance with Law No. 44-FZ and submit a structured application for such notices with the active participation of electronic platforms, customers and authorized bodies from several regions of the country, including the Republic of Tatarstan.

According to experts of the Treasury of Russia, when forming a notice of procurement, the customer has the right to establish contract enforcement, including in the amount of 30% of the NMCC, advance payments - in the amount of 50% of the NMCC.
 

Sergey Ryabukhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, held a round table on July 20, 2023 on the topic "Improving legislation regulating procurement activities in order to restructure the economy."

The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia decided to raise the key rate by 100 basis points to 8.50% per annum. The Bank of Russia admits the possibility of a further increase in the key rate at the next meetings. According to the Central Bank's forecast, annual inflation will be 5.0-6.5% in 2023 and will return to 4% in 2024.

In accordance with the provisions of Part 8 of Article 93 of Federal Law No. 44, paragraph 11 of the Rules for Approval by the control body in the Field of Procurement of Goods, Works, services for state and municipal Needs of concluding a contract with a single supplier (contractor, contractor) approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 30.06.2020 N 961 is given.

On 20.07.2023, the State Duma in the third (final) reading adopted a bill that clarifies administrative liability for violations related to manifestations of monopolistic activity in digital commodity markets.

In the information letter prepared by the specialists of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, in particular, it is emphasized that when purchasing goods, work or services using the KTRU position, in respect of which the reference information contains an indication of the OKPD 2 code included in the List approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 08.12.2021 N 3500-p (hereinafter - the List N 3500-p), the customer establishes and grants an advantage to procurement participants who are organizations of persons with disabilities, provided for in Article 29 of Law No. 44-FZ.

The specialists of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia indicated that the customer should establish a requirement for the procurement participants to have membership in the SRO, the scope of regulation of which correlates with the result of the work that is the object of the purchase, and also gave examples of establishing such a requirement in various cases.

Specialists of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation spoke about the specifics of procurement by legal entities specified in Part 4.1 of Article 15 of Federal Law No. 44, when providing them with subsidies provided for in paragraphs 8 and 8.1 of Article 78 and sub-paragraphs 3 and 3.1 of paragraph 1 of Article 78.3 of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation. In particular, it was clarified that the provisions of Federal Law No. 44 regulating the procurement planning procedure do not apply to the procurement of these persons. They also have no obligation to achieve the volume of purchases from small business entities, socially oriented non-profit organizations and to achieve the minimum mandatory share of purchases of Russian goods.

The specialists of the department explained that when goods are imported into the Russian Federation from the territory of other member states of the Eurasian Economic Union on the basis of a contract concluded with a supplier registered in the territory of a member state of the Eurasian Economic Union, with the exception of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the supplier from the Eurasian Economic Union), the customer acts as a taxpayer of indirect taxes (income tax value added and excise taxes) on such goods.