Open a secret: How to buy eggs and milk for the Armed Forces
8381 states that expenditures on the Sector of Security and Defense, in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2023", provided at the level of UAH 1. 14 trillion - this is about 50% of all annual expenditures of the state. The key issues of this project are the publication of prices at which public procurement for the army. And the main change, according to the draft Law No.
8381, is the publication by the customer in the electronic system of procurement of the contract not later than 10 days after its conclusion. Moreover, promulgation is mandatory if the value of the purchasing item for goods and services of defense, other goods and services for guaranteed security and defense needs or exceeds 200 thousand UAH, and for defense works and works for guaranteed security needs and defense - UAH 1. 5 million.
Project # 8381 states that in the case of foodstuffs in the report should contain data on the value of all components: separate names of foodstuffs, indicating the price per unit of food and the cost of individual services. But there are no requirements for the publication of the name of the suppliers in the reports, that is, if the price of products in the contracts is now open, then who will supply the Armed Forces of Eggs, Milk or Potatoes, the public will not be known - remains a secret.
According to Igor Chudovsky, the manager of the law firm "Chudovsky and partners", the participants of the procurement process were obliged to report in more detail and publish information concerning such purchases, to do so almost every stage of this process, but of course, with preservation information containing state secret. According to experts surveyed, the bill No.
8381 requires the suppliers to publish important data on the contract, and such publication is extremely important even if martial law is exposed. "This project is needed. I was engaged in a full -scale invasion of defense purchases and saw all the pros and cons, and now all this is hidden and we do not see what happens to us with orders.
We cannot compare the prices at which purchases are follow And this is the connected scandal for the purchase of food products of the Ministry of Defense, it is the first, and the second - if the number can still be confident From the procurement of the reform of defense procurement of Nelly Stelmach. In her opinion, project No. 8381 will promote control over public procurement, but the risks remain.
"One thing is when the customer is the Ministry of Defense or the National Police and the other - different military units, which in the amount of procurement make up a lion's share. And here the question to the command of individual units - to control purchases and publish information," - explained Nellie Stelmakh.
According to Igor Chudovsky, the question of whether this law will help to avoid corruption risks in this area depends on the degree of control by the state, in particular, law enforcement agencies.
Earlier, Focus wrote that on February 9, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov, against the backdrop of a scandal with purchases for the army at inflated prices, reported that last year, a total of 621 officials from the defense department and the Armed Forces were held accountable for internal considerations. After the publication of the resonant investigation, two Deputy Minister of Defense got rid of the posts.