The problems of public procurement in the Russian Federation at the stages of planning and concluding a contract

The improvement of regulatory legal acts regulating the public procurement market is one of the most priority areas for the development of the economic potential of the Russian Federation, due to the need for the rational use of public funds and the exclusion of fraudulent and corrupt acts from procurement activities by unscrupulous procurement participants. The purpose of this study is to identify the most vulnerable articles of contract legislation at the stage of planning and concluding a contract. The methods of empirical research were used in the work - comparative analysis, systematization and generalization of information. The revealed violations of contract legislation by authorized bodies during control measures in three subjects of the Russian Federation served as the basis of the study. Thus, on the basis of open data on the results of verification of compliance with the Law on the Contract System, the main problems of implementing the stages of planning public procurement and concluding a contract between the customer and the supplier have been identified. In particular, the participants of the public procurement market incorrectly form the marginal prices of contracts when determining the contractor of the contract and documentation on the justification of purchases of goods, works, services attached to the schedule, and contracts are concluded with a single supplier in the absence of justification for conducting a non-competitive selection method.