Published on: 2026-10-02
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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Moscow shared its experience in digitalizing procurement at the 10th Saint Petersburg International Contract Relations Forum. The capital is developing a unified procurement management system, implementing artificial intelligence, and providing customers and entrepreneurs from other regions access to its digital services. This was reported by the Head of the Moscow City Department for Competitive Policy. Kirill Purtov at the plenary session “Contract System: Key Objectives and Development Directions until 2027.”
“Annually, capital city customers conclude approximately 400 thousand contracts and agreements totaling about 2.5 trillion rubles. To handle such volume, we are developing a digital procurement ecosystem: automating planning, standardizing documentation, and creating convenient services for the interaction between customers and businesses. Thanks to this, entrepreneurs from other regions, including Saint Petersburg, actively participate in capital procurement. Thus, since 2020, Moscow customers have signed 67.7 thousand contracts with suppliers from Saint Petersburg under federal laws No. 44-FZ and 223-FZ. Regional businesses are assisted in participating in small-volume procurements by supplier portal“In the same period, 26.3 thousand contracts have been concluded on the platform between Moscow customers and entrepreneurs from Saint Petersburg,” Kirill Purtov reported.
St. Petersburg clients actively work on the platform: in 2025 and from January to August of this year, they published on supplier portal 243.4 thousand purchases. Among the main categories are construction and medical goods, communication and telecommunications services.
The platform brings together customers from 48 regions of Russia and more than 410 thousand suppliers across the country. Entrepreneurs can offer their products on the portal to customers from various regions and find suitable small-volume procurements. The platform’s catalog contains 3.6 million standard product units.
The built-in business assistant of the supplier portal—the REM mascot—helps to search for procurements and contracts, study their content, and understand how the resource works. In 2027, its capabilities are planned to be expanded: the robot will support users in filling out product cards and forms on the platform.
New users also have access to the “Supplier School” service, which helps them master the platform’s capabilities and learn the mini-auction procedure on a special simulator. When participating in procurements, the automated bidding bot allows working in several sessions simultaneously, and the chatbot finds answers to frequently asked questions in the knowledge base.
The supplier portal was created in 2013 to automate small-volume purchases. Not only companies but also individuals can offer goods, works, and services on it. To start, you need to obtain an electronic signature and register. More than 1,500 contracts are concluded on the platform daily.
The functional customer of the supplier portal is Moscow City Department for Competitive Policy, and its technical development is overseen by the capital’s Department of Information Technology.
The 10th St. Petersburg International Contract Relations Forum takes place on October 1 and 2. The event brings together representatives of authorities, customers, businesses, and the expert community to exchange experiences and discuss the future of public procurement. The core of the business program is the directions for the development of the contract system until 2027, its application practices, and cooperation between the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union and BRICS. The forum is organized by the Committee on Public Procurement of St. Petersburg and the Government of St. Petersburg.
Moscow consistently maintains its leading position among regions in procurement transparency, confirming its status as the largest customer in the country with an average annual contract volume exceeding two trillion rubles. The capital leads in national procurement transparency ranking, which became possible thanks to the standardization of procedures, the implementation of digital technologies, and the active involvement of small and medium-sized businesses in public procurement.
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