On certain legal and organizational aspects of public procurement in Russia

The paper is devoted to the analysis of certain organizational and legal aspects of the regulation of the contract system in the field of procurement for state and municipal needs. The purpose of the study is to identify legal and enforcement issues that impede the effective implementation of public procurement procedures in the Russian Federation. In order to achieve this purpose, the author uses a dialectic approach, applying a whole range of general and specific scientific methods, with a special focus on topical statistics. Results: the conclusion is drawn about the instability of the procurement law, its procedural bias, the unresolved issue of determining the initial (maximum) contract price, monopolization of procurement of small quantities of SET (single trade aggregate). It is concluded that there is a need to review approaches to determining the effectiveness of procurement procedures and to increase the responsibility of customers in this area.