The Legal Regulation of Public Procurement Abroad

Abstract

   The presented article contains an analytical review of some specific aspects of legal regulation of the public procurement market in foreign countries. The article examines the experience of regulating the public procurement market and the norms of the European Union, as well as countries such as the United States of America, Great Britain, the People's Republic of China and South Korea. The paper also examines the statistical indicators of the volume of the public procurement market in the listed countries, the data indicates the importance of the public procurement sector for legal regulation in each of the countries that were considered. The article mainly uses the comparative legal method. The author of the article identified some features of the regulation of the processes of placing government orders in foreign countries, which are of interest due to the fact that these features are not typical for the legislation of the Russian Federation, some of the above features may be directions for possible improvement of the legal regulation of relations in the sphere of meeting state and municipal needs in Russian Federation. At the end of the article, conclusions are drawn about the possibility of adoption certain foreign legal norms in order to improve the Federal Contact System and Russian legal regulation of the sphere of public procurement.