Public Procurement Institute offers a wide range of consulting services in Russian, English and French to Russian and foreign customers. Information about our expert team can be found here.

Consulting services on procurement of goods, works, and services for federal and municipal needs in accordance with the Federal Law No.44-FZ dated April 05, 2013.

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Consulting services for procurement clients and authorised purchasing agencies

• Analysis of existing purchasing practices and recommendations on their improvement; 

• Legal and methodological support within the procurement system development: preparation of policies and procedures that regulate activity of contract departments, managers, and tender committees; development of bid documentation templates (including bids with restricted number of participants and two-stage bids), auction documentation, requests of proposal, federal and municipal contract drafts, etc.; 

• Organization and support of purchasing procedures: tenders, including tenders with restricted number of participants and two-stage tenders, auctions, requests for proposal, and requests for price on turn-key contracts;

• Development of protection strategies against supplier fraud; 

• Client representation in court, and in procurement control and audit institutions; 

• Court appeals against actions and decision of the supervisory agencies;

• Expert investigation and reports on specific issues and situations that arise during the procurement process; 

• “Hot line” support – real time phone and email consultations during an agreed period of time.

Consulting services for the procurement process participants (Suppliers)

• General consulting on the procurement process, including urgent assistance and support at any stage of the process; 
  

• Assistance in development of efficient and effective procurement strategies; 

• Analysis of existing procurement documentation to identify any potential legislation violations by procurement clients (violations of procurement related laws, and civil, budget, antimonopoly legislation of the Russian Federation; 

• Consultations on bid documentation preparation; 

• Audit of prepared bids to verify their conformance to the procurement guidelines, existence of all necessary information and documents, and conformance of such documents to the legislation requirements, in order to ensure acceptance of bids for participation in the procurement process; 

• Representation of potential suppliers in bid envelopes’ opening procedures; 

• Development of conflict management strategies in case of disagreements between clients and suppliers; 

• Preparation and legal support of complaints processing in the antimonopoly service; 

• Preparation of lawsuit documentation and representation in court, assistance in settlement; 

• Expert investigation and reports on specific issues and situations that arise during the procurement process; 

• Legal research in the field of sales improvements through the procurement process; 

• “Hot line” support – real time phone and email consultations during an agreed period of time. 

Consulting On The Application of The Federal Law No. 223-FZ Dated July 18, 2011

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Consulting for the procurement process clients

The Institute offers the following consulting services to the budgetary and autonomous entities, unitary enterprises, public companies and corporations, and natural monopolies: 

• Organization of seminars, trainings sessions, round-table discussions, other forms of education on the application of the Federal Law No. 223-FZ dated July 18, 2011, and other legislation acts that regulate procurement activity; 

• Development of general procurement guidelines; 

• Development of procurement policies and procedures in accordance with the client’s particular requirements; 

• Analysis of existing procurement guidelines, and other policies and procedures that regulate the purchasing process to ensure their conformance to the Russian Federation legislation; 

• Consulting on selection of the most appropriate purchasing procedures, and on their application; 

• Preparation and support of procurement procedures; 

• Development of bid documentation templates in accordance with the company guidelines and legislation requirements; 

• Client representation in court and authorised supervisory agencies that control conformance of clients' activity to the Federal Law No. 223-FZ. 

• “Hot line” support – real time phone and email consultations during an agreed period of time. 

Consulting services for the procurement process participants (Suppliers)

• General consulting on the procurement process, including urgent assistance and support at any stage of the process; 

• Assistance in development of efficient and effective procurement strategies; 

• Analysis of existing procurement documentation to identify any potential legislation violations by procurement clients (violations of procurement related laws, and civil, budget, antimonopoly legislation of the Russian Federation; 

• Consultations on bid documentation preparation; 

• Audit of prepared bids to verify their conformance to the procurement guidelines, existence of all necessary information and documents, and conformance of such documents to the legislation requirements, in order to ensure acceptance of bids for participation in the procurement process; 

• Representation of potential suppliers in bid envelopes’ opening procedures; 

• Development of conflict management strategies in case of disagreements between clients and suppliers; 

• Preparation and legal support of complaints processing in the antimonopoly service; 

• Preparation of lawsuit documentation and representation in court, assistance in settlement; 

• Expert investigation and reports on specific issues and situations that arise during the procurement process; 

• Legal research in the field of sales improvements through the procurement process; 

• “Hot line” support – real time phone and email consultations during an agreed period of time.