Public Procurement System in Belarus: Administrative Aspect

Abstract

The article presented here is the country research and has an analytical character. In it the system of public procurement in Belarus is concerned. Stages of public procurement system’s formation and its legislative base, development of electronization of purchases are considered. The public procurement system at the sub-national level is analyzed and weak points are emphasized. Corruption aspects and ways of their minimization in public procurement activity are showed. Debatable issues and ways of procurement activity improvement in Belarus are presented.
The methodology of research is based on the analysis of a series of data on public procurement in the Republic of Belarus, budgetary expenditures on public procurements in the local governments of the Minskaya oblast, on e-auctions procurement at the Universal Commodity Exchange. Statistical data for analysis obtained from official sources, such as the State Statistics Committees, Ministry of Finance, Open Joint Stock Company (OJSC) the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange and on-line databases of analytical centers working in this field, etc.