Abstract

During the last period, the state procurement system of Georgia is actively developing in the direction of European standards that is quite a step forward in terms of European integration. In terms of transparency, the state procurement system of Georgia is one of the most advanced worldwide, but the procurement monitoring system needs to be significantly improved, because often suspicious contracts identified by the agency call into question the transparency and anti-corruption actions.

Approaching the issue from the buyers point of view, preferring is to the signing of simplified tenders and contracts due to procedural simplicity, but it is necessary to introduce the standards specified in the European Directives on simplified procurement in Georgia, similarly to the countries of the European Union, as implemented by Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic. In this direction, we consider it expedient to make some changes in the already prepared new draft law "On State Procurement" that should come into effect on January 1, 2025.

One of the problematic aspects of the country's procurement system is the issue of procurement planning. Despite the ePlan module has been built into the state procurement website, monitoring of annual plans of procuring organizations by the agency is still not carried out at an appropriate level. In the ePlan module, it is possible to adjust the recorded data that gives the possibility to procuring organization to make adjustments during the year to the annual plans submitted to the agency at their own discretion. Timely correction of the aforementioned is an important issue of the new electronic system implemented in the procurement system, in order to record cases of corrections made by the purchasing organizations in the procurement plans on the website of the Agency. As a whole, the state procurement system of Georgia is developing successfully in terms of European integration, new standards and norms are being introduced periodically.