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Procurement planning
Starting next year, state autonomous institutions will conduct procurement according to plan
The draft law currently under consideration in the State Duma, which should replace the law on public procurement, the law on the federal contract system, among other innovations, involves the introduction of a forecasting and procurement planning stage. The bill provides for the development and formation of three-year procurement plans for goods, works, and services, which must describe the procurement items, indicating their functional characteristics, as well as the volume of funds required for procurement. In the case of purchases of high-tech products, plans should be drawn up 5–7 years in advance. Based on these plans, detailed procurement plans and schedules for one year should be formed, which should become the basis directly for procurement.
Formally, planning requirements apply only to those funds that budgetary institutions receive from their founders: purchases through grants, contracts and business agreements are removed from the scope of regulation of the draft law on the federal contract system. It is assumed that procurement using these funds should be regulated by another law - the law of June 18, 2011 223-FZ “On the procurement of goods, works, services by certain types of legal entities.” This law, developed for state autonomous institutions, state corporations, unitary enterprises, does not provide for such strict regulation of the procurement procedure as the law on public procurement in force for budgetary institutions, but establishes only general rules for procurement, assuming that detailed rules will be established in procurement regulations written by the organizations themselves.
The problem, however, is that Law 223-FZ also provides for certain procurement planning procedures, including the preparation of procurement plans, and since it was not developed at all for scientific institutions, it does not take into account the specifics of science financing. Therefore, if amendments are not made to the bill on the federal contract system (or to Law 223-FZ) to provide for the free spending of funds under grants, contracts, etc., serious problems with procurement may arise. Such amendments were developed and submitted to the Duma by representatives of the initiative group of young scientists and the trade union of RAS workers, but whether - and to what extent - they will be taken into account is not yet clear.
Until recently, one could hope that the law on the federal contract system would come into force no earlier than January 1, 2014, so that next year we would in any case do without planning. However, on September 17, 2012, the government adopted Resolution No. 932 “On approval of the Rules for the formation of a plan for the procurement of goods (works, services) and requirements for the form of such a plan” [1], which will come into force on October 17. This resolution determines the form of procurement plans for those organizations that must operate in accordance with Law 223-FZ. They will have to prepare procurement plans for the year with a monthly or quarterly breakdown, in which it will be necessary to provide information on all purchases in an amount exceeding 100 thousand rubles. It is stipulated that adjustments may be made to procurement plans.
This government decree does not apply to budgetary institutions, but some well-known universities - MIPT, MEPhI, MISiS, HSE, etc. - are state autonomous institutions. So procurement planning will become a reality there already at the end of this year, and already next year it will become clear how serious the need to make adjustments to procurement plans when receiving grants, contracts, etc. is. complicates the procurement process for grants and contracts.
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