EMPOWERING THE PARTICIPATION OF ENTREPRENEURS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of equal opportunities for participation in public procurement. Many public procurement systems are based on the principle of equality of persons involved in procurement. Equality can serve not only as a means to achieve various objectives of the public procurement system, such as the development of fair competition, preventing corruption and other abuses and meeting the needs of legal entities (customers) in goods, works, services with the necessary price, quality and reliability, but also to be objectively present in the procurement process as an independent right. One of the main problems related to the principle of equal treatment is that this principle is often not sufficiently clearly defined by the legislator and it is not clear what role it should play in the procurement system it will only be a means for other purposes or a separate purpose in the procurement law. The author believes that the expansion of opportunities for participation in procurement is the basic task of the Institute of public procurement, which should be taken into account in the procurement procedures, as well as in the formation of the content and structure of the Russian legislation. The article reveals the meaning of the specified goal. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the procurement procedure, in which all interested persons have equal opportunities to participate, can act as a legal mechanism for the state customer to find the best conditions for the supply of goods, performance of work and provision of services.