Balance Customer Interests and Competition Protection in Public Procurement

Abstract

The article deals with the actual and important issue of maintaining a balance of interests of the customer, as well as the principles of the contract system in the field of procurement of goods, works, services for state and municipal needs, such as stimulating innovation, procurement efficiency, implying the priority of providing state and municipal needs through the purchase of innova. In practice, it is often judged only by the number of participants in the competitive procedure, often acting as resellers of the same product, which does not allow the customer to actively stimulate innovation. The principle of ensuring competition is one of the principles of the contract system: the contract system in the field of procurement is aimed at creating equal conditions for ensuring competition between participants in procurement. In 2022, significant changes came into force in the law 44-FZ “On the contract system”, including in terms of conducting competitive procurement procedures. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the study of various aspects of maintaining the balance of interests of the customer and protecting competition in procurement activities in the context of changing the legislation. The work uses general scientific research methods: comparison, analysis and the method of expert assessments.The article is aimed at analyzing the balance of interests of the customer, as well as the principles of stimulating innovation, the efficiency of procurement and the principle of ensuring competition and developing recommendations in this area.