Academic appendix

M.M. Yudkevich, the Head of the SU-HSE Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, and S.G. Pivovarova, junior research fellow of the SU-HSE Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, raise in their article the issue concerning the problem of choice by the customers of the procedure of procurement while placing their orders for the realization of different categories of their necessities with regard to the current field of legislative norms in the sphere of RF state procurement regulation.
Assuming that the implementation of the classification of purchased goods cannot influence such outer factors to the nature of the good as efficiency of the judicial system, peculiarities of budgetary legislation or reputational mechanisms efficiency, the authors suggest using as a basis of classification the different peculiarities of qualitative characteristics of the goods.
As a base of the classification of the purchased goods they suggest to divide the goods to inspection, experimental and trust.

M.A. Rozhkov, the Deputy of the SU-HSE First Vice-Chancellor, and O.N. Balayeva, Associate Professor of the SU-HSE General and Strategic Management Department, in their article analyze the practice of placing the order by the SU-HSE procurements administration and the problems the customer confronts while reaching his goals such as placing the order in terms of 94-FL requirements.
Within the bounds of the SU-HSE project “Analysis of the functioning of the state procurement system and development of suggestions for its improvement” there has been made an attempt of generalization and systematization of the problems that Russian state customers often confront. Among the methods implemented for this research can be mentioned the case studies focused on the examination of the practical experience of organizations – state procurement customers – by means of a series of profound interviews with the specialists who deal directly with state procurements.
As the objects of the research there have been chosen one representatives in each of the following categories of state procurement customers – from federal department and from government-financed organization. To realize the goals of the research there have been prepared cases based on the information received from these interviews with the specialists of a federal department and a major government-financed organization.
Revealed with the help of these surveys, interviews and case studies, the problems have been identified, summarized and systematized according to the main stages of procurements organization and deliveries accomplishment (including the forming of the order, its placement and execution).

In this article the employees of the SU-HSE Institute of Procurement and Sales Management of A.B. Solovyov I.V. Kuznetsova, T.N. Trefilova, N.V. Eremenko, E.G. Gladkova, E.L. Bogorad and A.V. Burkov examine the results of placement of the orders for state needs in 2008-2009. For this analysis there has been used the data of the federal statistic supervision after the placement of the orders on the delivery of goods, works and services according to the №1-bidding form, which is annually approved by the Federal Service of State Statistics.
When this article was being prepared, there were available the statistics for the year of 2008 and the first 9 months of 2009. The data on the placed orders was provided by the customers and processed in progressive total every quarter. The examined period (2008-2009) presents special interest because, on the one hand, it shows the results which are actual for today and can be compared to the period before crisis. On the other hand, in this period the forms of the state statistic supervision have insignificant differences, meanwhile the forms and the rules of the completion during the previous periods had a few distinctions based on a number of factors.