13 January 2016, 14:51
The adopted law, as was specified by the author of the draft law, foresees:
Obligatoriness of holding procurement procedures through electronic system. On the first stage obligatoriness of holding such procedures will apply to main distributors of funds and monopolists (from April 1, 2016), on the second (from August 1) to all customers;
Introduction of an electronic auction, which provides for the automatic evaluation of tender proposals;
Introduction of a new concept of "authorized electronic platform," "electronic system of procurements," "centralized procurement organization," "cloud system;"
Keeping three procedures instead of five (open tenders, competitive dialogue, negotiating procedure);
Change of terminology, in particular, instead of the term "state procurement" they introduce the concept "public procurement;" instead of the terms "competition", "competitive bidding documents", "competitive bidding offer", "competitive bidding committee" the concept "tender," "tender documents," "tender offer", "tender committee;"
Combination of two laws on procurements: the Law of Ukraine "On state procurements" and the Law of Ukraine "On peculiarities of procurements in selected spheres of business activity."