OREANDA-NEWS. In 2006, the number of public tenders as a percentage of competitive procurement by RAO UES entities grew more than twofold to 92 percent.

Over the year, RAO UES entities held over 15,700 public tenders, up from 7,118 tenders in 2005. The total amount of fuel, equipment, services and technologies procured also more than doubled to RUB619.5 billion in terms of value.

Expenses on the construction, overhaul and modernization of energy facilities and cost of fuel for the power plants usually account for the greater part of the companies' spending, 40 percent and 37 percent of the total value of procurements, respectively. Expenses for the repair campaign amounted to 13 percent, the respective percentages of procurement through tenders were 43%, 11%, and 49%, respectively.

Approaches to procurement process aimed at ensuring greater openness and transparency have become a basis for the Market for Goods, Services and Technologies for the Electricity Industry. This market is serviced by the B2B-energo, the energy industry procurement system.

The savings achieved through the competitive procurement based on the unified transparent regulations in 2006 amounted to RUB18.4 billion, including RUB5.7 billion through the В2В-Energo system.