OREANDA-NEWS. March 29, 2010. The shift to an electronic procurement system, which RUSNANO made on February 1, 2010, has increased the number of competing suppliers 1.5 times and reduced the price of purchases by 24 percent. These figures come from analyses of data at the conclusion of the system’s first month of operations.

Use of В2В-RUSNANO (www.b2b-rusnano.ru), a part of B2B-Center system, to purchase goods and services raised the number of participating bidders by an average of 1.5 times (4.6 times greater in one tender) when compared with information from 2009. In more than half of the procurement procedures, company-awardees increased their first bids, which is not possible in traditional paper forms of purchasing.

Reduction in the cost of goods and services acquired is an important result of having introduced electronic commerce. On average, the actual price at which a purchase was made was 24 percent lower than the original offer. The difference between the highest price offered by supplier-participants and the price at award was 69 percent. In procedures where starting price was established by the initiator (announcement is part of the procedure) of the purchase, the bid by the eventual awardee was half the starting price.

More than 100 purchases worth 100 million rubles have already been announced through the B2B-RUSNANO e-purchasing system.

In the opinion of Alexey Romanov, head of the Directorate for Procurement at RUSNANO, companies that are established with the corporation’s participation could use the electronic system for organizing purchases as successfully. The system would be equally effective at the stage when new production is being organized and when full production capacity is reached. B2B-RUSNANO has been designed not only for purchases of goods and services but also for the sale of goods.