Features of Procurement of Complicated Products by a Two-Stage Competition

Public policies and public procurement have played an important role regarding innovation in various spheres. However, the major blank gaps are found not fully investigated in the field of complicated products, for instance lots of component elements can make a product difficult to understand. Also, the new public procurement law introduced a two-stage competition as a way to determine the supplier. It is believed that this procedure will increase the share of complicated products on the market. . However, the practice of using a two-stage competition in Russia is small, so there is a risk that the customer will make a mistake when choosing a method of determining provider. So the main purpose of the study was evaluate the results of the using of two-stage competition as a way to determine the supplier of complex products in Russia in 2015-2016. After having collected data from Russian law regulating public procurement and articles from science journals, review of significant drawbacks of public procurement documentation was made. Also the study included comparative analysis of complicated products procurement system in Russia and European countries. Using information about all cases of complex product purchasing in public sector in Russia in 2015, the conclusions were made. So practice part presents the answer to the core question, that a two-stage competition is unclaimed. This finding is reasonably actual nowadays, when government attempts to build transparent and efficient public procurement system.