Public Procurement Information Component: How to Deal with Falsified Information?

The relevance of the article lies in the study of the key problem of information support for public procurement at the current stage: filling the socially significant sphere of relations with inaccurate information, falsified information and forged documents, including confirmation of the experience and qualifications of the procurement participant.

The purpose of the study is to disclose the algorithm of the procurement commission's work at the stages of selecting applicants and evaluating applications for procurement participants in terms of verifying the reliability of the information and documents presented by them.

The author sees the task of the study to identify the reasons and factors that contribute to the use by the procurement commission of relatively reliable (but actually unverifiable) information during public procurement.

Methodology. The article uses a complex of general scientific (analysis, modeling, analogy, hypothesis), private scientific (formal-logical, systemic, functional) methods, and the author also uses a formal legal method.

The results of the study allowed the author to identify legal uncertainty in the regulation of the public procurement process, which casts doubt on the optimality and sufficiency of existing regulation that cannot block both abuses by market entities (applicants and procurement participants) and errors made by control bodies.

Conclusions. The author proposed current directions for improving the current legislation on public procurement, aimed at stopping the risks of using falsified information, inaccurate information and forged documents; at the same time, the vectors for optimizing the legal regulation of procurement processes are, according to the author, in the segment of public law and are expressed in the application of "quasi-responsibility" (register of unscrupulous suppliers), as well as the design in the short term of a new composition of an administrative offense in order to punish deception.

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