“In July last year, we issued a new circular and template that whoever is submitting procurement plan should indicate ... be 15 percent of the procurement budget and it’s a compliance issue ...

Previously, the procurement function primarily revolved around negotiating the lowest price for goods and services. This process often began with budgeting and planning, an order from a department to ...

which had a budget of over $7 billion last year. The defense minister, Rustem Umerov, recently dismissed the agency’s director, Maryna Bezrukova, citing “poor procurement planning” and ...