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On September 30, 2016, VEGAS LEX hosted a business breakfast in cooperation with the Federal Antimonopoly Service on Changes in the Procurement Legislation: New Regulations for Unitary Enterprises, with representatives of the leading federal state unitary enterprises attending.

Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Department for Control over State Procurement Artyom Lobov spoke about the reasons that caused the need for legislative changes, described the circumstances unitary enterprises should pay particular attention to in transition to the contract system, and answered questions about how to bring the unitary enterprises’ operation in line with the contract system requirements.

VEGAS LEX Commercial group associate Ksenia Podguzova briefed the participants on measures that unitary enterprises will have to take by January 1, 2017 to implement the transition to the contract system, and on the new limitations and obligations in their further procurement activities.

Adopting the contract system also involves significant changes in terms of responsibility for violations in public procurement. Commercial group associate Yulia Polyakova listed the most dangerous and widespread violations that unitary enterprises might commit in the planning and procurement process, while choosing the procurement method, entering their data into the Unified Information System (UIS), while signing and changing their state contract, and so on.

VEGAS LEX Partner, Head of Technology and Investment group Alexandra Vasyukhnova highlighted the regulatory authorities’ approaches to the legality of the requirement to establish the bidder’s exclusive rights to the subject matter of the procurement, and gave recommendations on how to ensure the protection of copyright holders’ rights in the process of public procurement.

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