A practical forum #PRO_zakupki was held in Omsk

For the first time, legislators, customers, suppliers, control and supervisory authorities gathered at one site in the region. The forum ended with a raffle of prizes from the My Business center in Omsk and partners.

On September 30, the regional Congress Hall hosted the #PRO_zakupki forum: "Public Procurement: opportunities for small businesses." The forum was held offline and online at the expense of the national project to support small and medium-sized businesses.

The forum brought together all stakeholders in the field of procurement: legislators, customers, suppliers, control and supervisory authorities. The speakers were Natalia Dokhvat, Head of the Main Department of the Omsk Region Contract System, Tamara Shmakova, Deputy Head of the Regional Federal Antimonopoly Service, Marina Alyoshkina, Deputy Director of the Omsk City Hall Contract System Procurement Department, and Valery Shagaev, Vice President of OPORA RUSSIA, and a practicing lawyer, procurement expert, and one of the most sought-after Russian procurement teachers. Evgeny Mironov. Yuri Lavrov, Rector of the Cluster Online Institute and resident of the IT Park, delivered practical cases at the forum.

"My colleagues, our colleagues, and our key partner, the regional branch of OPORa Russia, are pleased that we were able to organize such a useful event for the business. This is probably the first site in the region where all participants in the procurement process have gathered offline. The amount of information that will be presented at the forum sites in a day is equal to the entire course on working with public procurement! Therefore, it is great that there is an opportunity to learn something new on the topic of public procurement for free," said the Deputy Manager of the Entrepreneurship Support Fund (My Business Center in Omsk). Dmitry Goncharov.

The forum was designed to help all participants in the public procurement process find answers to painful and difficult questions, understand innovations, and understand the prospects and vectors of procurement development. As federal expert Evgeny Mironov noted, all parties to the procurement process cannot live without each other and joked that they need to cooperate without confusing cooperation with collusion.

"Almost 30,000,000,000,000 (trillion) rubles made up the government order market last year, not bad?! The largest market in the country! According to current regulations, 25% of government orders is a quota for small and medium-sized businesses. Especially in times of crisis, government procurement acts as a driver for economic development, so it is important for businesses to SEE this opportunity. Small businesses are not using this opportunity yet, so the work needs to be carried out. We will form a community in the region in the field of public procurement," said Alexander Deryabin, President of the regional branch of OPORA Russia.

Several information and discussion platforms were held at the forum: participants discussed quotas and the national regime, the interaction of business and regional corporate customers, learned from examples how to enter the tender market and how to build a business on procurement.

The forum ended with a raffle of prizes among the registered participants present in the hall. 10 people received branded office equipment and high-tech transformer cables from the My Business center.  Certificates for training at the All-Russian educational and methodological center "Auction Consulting" and gifts from Raiffeisenbank were also raffled off.

The My Business service center opened in Omsk in 2019. Among 84 similar centers across the country, it operates under the national project "Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative." The task of the My Business center is not only to support entrepreneurs within the framework of the national project, but also to form a unified business community in the regions and provide educational support to businesses.