3.3.5 Procurements
Purchase activities during the reported period were regulated by the Rosseti’s Single Purchase Standard (Procurement Regulations)[39].
Principles for building-up purchase activities of the Company:
Information transparency of tenders – enforcement of the transparency of purchase activities in compliance with the laws of the Russian Federation to the extent, required and sufficient for potential contractors to decide on tender bidding.
Equal rights, lack of discrimination and unwarranted competitiveness restrictions towards tender bidders – provision of non-discriminatory access of suppliers (contractors) to tenders is preferential; suppliers (contractors) are selected mainly via tenders with equal opportunities, lack of discrimination and unwarranted restrictions toward tender bidders, in compliance with reasonable demand to potential tender bidders and purchased goods, works and services, keeping in mind, if required, product life cycle; discontinuation of single-source contract practices
Appropriate and efficient expenditures on goods, works and services, implementation of cost-cutting measures – offers are selected through a totality of predefined price and non-price criteria defining economic and other efficiency of a tender.
Unrestricted access to a tender by setting immeasurable requirements for bidders.
Transparency and controllability of purchasing activities – planning, accounting, monitoring, control and audit of purchasing activities on all stages.
Professionalism and competency of employees engaged in purchasing activities – personal responsibility of officials for efficient arrangement of tenders and their decisions on tenders; flawless performance of actions prescribed in documents regulating tenders; evaluation and retraining of the personnel, liable for purchasing activities.
Compliance with the laws regulating purchasing activities and combating corruption, incl. Anti-corruption Tender Regulations.
In 2022, the Company conducted 2,524 purchases worth RUBruble 25,430,473.117 thousand (plus VATvalue-added tax), namely:
Tender type |
Number of tenders |
Tender value |
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pcs | % of total amount of tenders | RUBruble thousand, plus VATvalue-added tax | % total tender value | |
Electronic tender | 167 | 6.616 | 6,793,631.149 | 26.715 |
Price inquiry after competitive pre-selection | 544 | 21.553 | 1,453,243.112 | 5.715 |
Price inquiry after pre-selection | 236 | 9.350 | 2,902,580.579 | 11.414 |
Single-source purchase | 511 | 20.246 | 3,189,860.240 | 12.543 |
Purchase from vendors | 15 | 0.594 | 53,375.957 | 0.210 |
Single-source purchases after cancelled tenders | 497 | 19.691 | 4,824,681.587 | 18.972 |
Electronic auction | 10 | 0.396 | 4,290,750.00 | 16.872 |
Electronic quote inquiry | 178 | 7.052 | 210,899.513 | 0.829 |
Electronic price comparison | 21 | 0.833 | 4,895.157 | 0.019 |
Electronic request for proposals | 345 | 13.669 | 1,706,555.823 | 6.711 |
There were 1,998 e-commerce procurements worth RUBruble 22,187,236.920 thousand plus VATvalue-added tax (100% of total purchases and 100% of total value, net of single-source purchases and purchases from vendors).
Number of contracts | Contract value (RUBruble thousand, incl. VATvalue-added tax) |
Payments under concluded contracts (RUBruble thousand, incl. VATvalue-added tax) | % of concluded and paid contracts | |
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Purchases from small-and medium-size businesses | 2.008 | 15,462,299.015 | 6,673,710.240 | 81.467% |
Incl. purchases only from small-and medium-size businesses (“special bidding”) | 876 | 7,279,850.398 | 3,826,372.717 | 46.709% |
The economic effect from the purchases amounted to RUBruble 1,603,517.069 thousand, incl. VATvalue-added tax or 6.740% of the announced price targets (net of single-source purchases and purchases from vendors). Open purchases contributed 87.247% to the total purchase value.
The following activities are enforced to enhance economic metrics, improve and promote purchase transparency:
- Use of electronic trading platforms to conduct max volume of purchases;
- Revisions of specifications in terms of elimination of unnecessary requirements to procurement participants;
- Negotiations with manufacturers to invite them to apply on the ETP without intermediaries;
- Additional requests for documents, required from participants, via ETP;
- Pre-contract negotiations;
- Repeated rebiddings.