The representative of the experimental plant of scientific instrumentation: the procurement procedure in the nuclear industry is made more transparent

On April 17, the III regional forum of suppliers of the nuclear industry “Atomex Northwest” began work in LenExpo (St. Petersburg). The forum is held by the State Corporation "Rosatom". The purpose of the event is the development of a competitive environment, the involvement of a larger number of suppliers of equipment and services, the continuation of the established dialogue between suppliers and customers. The plenary meeting was opened by the Deputy General Director of the State Corporation Rosatom for Development and International Business Kirill Komarov. He noted that interest in the forum is growing-according to the statistics of the organizers, the number of participants this year is 1.4 times more than for the Nomex North-West 2011, and 40% of participants are companies that first participate in the event. Komarov summed up the results of 2011, spoke about the plans of the state corporation, emphasizing the importance of the procurement system as one of the competitive advantages of Rosatom.

Valery Barkov , Head of the Department of Automated Technological Process Management Systems of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Ezan (Experimental Plant of Scientific Instrument Engineering):

We supply equipment for the automation of technological processes for nuclear power plants. The main direction is the modernization of operation systems for RBMC systems. These are Kursk, Smolensk and Leningrad NPP.

We participate in the procurement system in the nuclear industry, and from its advantages it should be noted that the procedure itself is more transparent. Now you can see how decisions are made to purchase a particular equipment or services and what technical requirements are applied to them.

On the other hand, this form probably does not properly ensure the quality of the purchased services, since the main price is. And for complex equipment, products, services, technical requirements often imply a specific supplier. The fact is that it cannot be otherwise, since for complex systems that are designed for a long time, in several stages to create and implement, purchase is only part of the entire range of work on creating and operating.

The specific nuances and features of this technique are bad, good ones - this is another side. As soon as the design work was included in the requirements and all technical requirements, to find the second competitor one to one is almost impossible.