OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: PERSPECTIVES OF LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Abstract. The article is devoted to the determination of the prospects for legislative provision of openness and transparency for public procurement. As emphasized, the national legislation and the practice of its application should continue to develop in the direction of ensuring the openness and transparency of public procurement. The author analyzed and pointed out the methods of unscrupulous procurement participants to hide information, distinguished technical and technological approaches to reducing the informativeness of procurement data to its participants. It was concluded that the prospects of legislative provision of openness and transparency of public procurement are to less extent in increasing the amount of information placed in public access, but to more extent in improving its structure and mechanisms to apply in work. Keywords: public procurement; principles of public procurement; openness; transparency; hiding information about public procurement; closing documentation from copying and contextual search; difficulty to read tender documentation; making changes to the tender documentation.