The headquarters of the Eurasian Economic Commission became the venue for a high-ranking consultation involving representatives of the Eurasian Economic Union countries' state authorities in charge of public procurement.

The issued addressed included digitalization of the procurement process and advancements in implementing the List of measures aimed at full digitalization of public procurement in the EAEU Member States adopted by the EEC Board’s disposition in August last year.

The sides agreed to shorten the minimum deadline for submitting applications for participation in the tender and auction, as well as to expand the list of procurement methods, providing for a new one — from an electronic store (catalogue).

According to Bakhyt Sultanov, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, we need to have the Treaty on the Union enshrine the rules governing the procurement process in digital format, as well as adopt single terminology that would allow approximating the national legislation governing public procurement in the EAEU Member States to the Union's law as much as possible.

Representatives of the authorized state authorities approved the Commission’s initiative to elaborate a digital public procurement map in the EAEU countries scheduled to be developed and posted on the Commission’s website.

The map is supposed to contain information on the total value of contracts concluded in the EAEU Member States, providing details on each participating country, the share of suppliers, and the share of goods purchased from the Union and third countries.

To make the map informative, the sides upheld the EEC proposal to expand the public procurement statistics provided to the Commission by the Member States.