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The law on increasing the mandatory share of purchases from SMP and SONKO has been published. From January 1, it will amount to at least 25% of the total annual volume of purchases instead of 15%, as it is now.
In addition, the payment terms for all contracts will be reduced. If the purchase is announced from January 1 to December 31, 2022 inclusive, the period will be:
no more than 10 working days-when purchasing from SMP and SONKO;

The participant was not allowed to purchase, because he made a mistake in the name of a specific indicator: instead of width, he indicated height in the application. These characteristics are not equivalent. According to the instructions, specific indicators were required in the format: length, width, thickness. In this case, the "width" indicator is not presented. There are no grounds for admission of the participant.
The supervisors considered the refusal illegal:
when considering applications, it is impossible to be guided by the formal requirements for filling them out;
the application was declared non-compliant only on the basis of a contradictory interpretation of the instructions, although the information about the product correlated with the requirements from the description of the object of purchase and did not contradict it;

Since the beginning of the year, a list of Russian goods and goods from the EAEU countries with a minimum purchase share has been in effect.
The government has supplemented it with new types of musical instruments, for example:
32.20.11.110-piano;
32.20.12.111-violins;

The parties have signed a contract for the provision of services. The company refused to fulfill it, because the customer did not fulfill his obligations. The court in another case recognized the refusal as legitimate.
The company filed a claim for recovery of lost profits. Due to the fault of the customer, it did not receive the profit it expected.
The first instance satisfied the requirements. The appeal and cassation did not agree with this decision:
the lost profit is calculated based on the profitability, which is indicated in the cost estimate for the contract. The profit would be paid to the company after the acceptance of the services by the customer. They are not provided until the termination of the contract. There are no grounds for payment;

In order to determine the NMCC, the agency, among other things, plans to clarify the rules for recalculating the estimated cost of construction works. So, in order to bring it in line with the price level of a particular construction period, the forecast inflation indices are used. They want to calculate them according to the formula.

In May, a requirement was introduced that some customers – the main managers of the federal budget and the recipients of such funds subordinate to them-should provide for the possibility of electronic acceptance in the EIS in contracts. This condition applies if the contract is placed in the registry and does not contain state secrets.
The Government has identified a list of such customers. It includes 63 departments (including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Finance, the FAS).

For purchases among MSPs, customers approve a list of goods (works, services).

From July 21 to August 10, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives for the Promotion of New Projects, together with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, AHO "NTI Platform" and AHO "University 2035", conducts the project and educational intensive Archipelago 2121, aimed at creating new innovative teams in the regions, developing technological projects in key areas of socio-economic development and increasing the share of technology business in the economy.
The participants of the Archipelago 2121 are technological entrepreneurs, representatives of universities, development institutes, business and regional executive authorities. More than 10,000 people have already registered to participate.

The Treasury has released a review of violations in the financial and budgetary sphere for the second half of 2020. Among them are errors in public procurement. The customers made a significant part of them when calculating the NMCC and executing the contract. Let's focus on the main mistakes.
Violations in the calculation of the NMCC
Most of the errors are related to the use of incorrect price information. So, when calculating the NMCC, you do not need to use:

The Agency proposed to settle the issue of" de-indexing " the contract price in the case when the contractor fulfills its obligations ahead of schedule. According to the authors, when putting an object into operation earlier than the deadline, it is necessary to exclude deflator indices from the contract price, which take into account the inflation of future periods.