Development of digital technologies on the example of public procurement, as a instrument of monitoring the efficiency of governance

Abstract

The article examines the development of digital technologies in Ukraine on the example of public procurement as a tool for monitoring the effectiveness of government. It was found that the practice of applying public procurement methods in Ukraine in 2019 tends to apply non-competitive methods of public procurement. In particular, from competitive procurement methods, the organizers used pre-threshold procurement (10.79 % of transactions) and open bidding (6.93 %) using an electronic procurement system. Instead, the use of such a non-competitive method as the "contract report", which does not involve the use of electronic procurement system, in 2019 increased compared to 2018 by more than 22% and accounts for more than 77 % of total procurementThe following areas of information technology development are proposed: elimination of the influence of the human factor on the decision-making process regarding public procurement; unification of requirements for registration of documents for all subjects of procurement; selection of procurement winners among bidders' applications according to an automatically generated algorithm, without the participation of an "interested person"; formation of an integrated information system for monitoring public procurement. The integrated information system will allow monitoring of public procurement in a continuous manner, and based on the monitoring results, transactions that have one or more of the signs of risk will be subject to control.