Changes to legislation on public procurements

On July 1, 2019, the Federal Law №71-FZ of 01.05.2019, with amendments that improve the contract system of public procurement, enters into force.

The amendments prescribe the following:

• procurement planning by only time-schedules, excluding procurement plans;
• maintaining a register of procurement participants by operators of electronic trading platforms;
• reduction from 10 to 1 day of the obligatory period between making changes to a time-schedule and placing notices of procurement;
• increase up to 300 million rubles of initial or maximum prices of contracts, admitting a possibility of conducting of electronic auctions with a shorter bidding period and, up to 2 billion rubles - during construction, reconstruction, major repairs, demolition of construction projects;
• banning on advance payments by conclusion of contracts with procurement participants who have offered a contract price, being lower by 25% or more from the initial or maximum one;
• provision of documents that substantiate compliance with additional requirements for procurement participants accredited at e-trading platforms;
• right to conclude a contract with procurement participants, who have been assigned the second number following the results of competitive procurement, in cases of termination of contracts with the winners of such procurement;
• right to make procurement for one unit of goods, works or services, regardless of the objects of procurement, if it is not possible to determine the volume of goods, works or services at the time of purchase;
• possible change in the material terms of contracts for the construction, reconstruction, major repairs and demolition of construction projects, for works on the preservation of cultural heritage objects in the event of emergency. In particular, an increase in the price up to 10% and a one-time extension of the terms of execution of contracts without an increase in their price in case of payment of the relevant penalties by contractors, in the event of their fault;
• eliminating the need for contractors to post reports on individual stages of the execution of contracts for construction works or for the preservation of cultural heritage objects, as well as in cases where the contract price is more than 1 billion rubles.

Information on all contacts and procurement, including archival one, is available in full for subscribers of the Information and Analytical system Globas.