Each customer in the field of public procurement wants to check the business reputation and reliability of the supplier before signing the contract. This is to some extent assisted by tendering mechanisms and documentation requirements. However, sufficient confidence can be obtained by using additional analytical tools.

Bi ProZorro

Existing open analytical tools will help verify the winning bidder. To do this, just go to the Bi ProZorro portal and select the “Procurement Phase” section, and then click on the “Participant Card” menu item.

Next, you should select a search by code EDRPOU and find the company of interest in the database.

After that, general information will become available regarding the supplier’s participation in the auction:

his price offers;
percentage of rejected bids;
percentage of winning bets;
all registered competitors;
date of registration of a business entity;
agreements.

The organizer may form an opinion on how the entrepreneur interacted with government customers during past tenders, as well as to detect signs of coordinated anti-competitive actions.

Agreements

Termination of previously concluded contracts is the most important parameter used to objectively assess the reliability of the winner in the tender. The service indicates the reasons for which the agreement was terminated. For example, it may be a refusal to fulfill the terms of the contract or the identification of violations by the customer.

Another criterion for evaluating agreements is a pool of organizers with whom an enterprise most often interacts at tenders. In this case, it is more difficult to make unambiguous conclusions. But signs of the connectedness of participants or concerted anti-competitive actions can also be detected.

YouControl

The service is paid. However, it has more capabilities than the previous one, because it checks not only the supplier’s participation in the ProZorro auctions.The service analyzes many other open sources. With it, you can check the following data on the subject of economic activity:

availability of legal proceedings and decisions;
relationship with the tax service;
the history of the company and its line of business;
the existence of bans or other sanctions by the AMC.

But the most important thing is the ability to instantly identify the links between the winner and other bidders, both in the present and in the past. The customer can quickly confirm or deny the status of a trustworthy supplier in order to make an informed decision about cooperation.

Complaints

Additional information about the participant can be obtained by checking the history of his complaint at past auctions. The electronic trading platform SmartTender.biz for this has its own convenient tool in your account.

Using the service for viewing complaints you can find out the following:

How often does an entrepreneur file complaints in public procurement?
How justified are these complaints from the point of view of the Law of Ukraine “On public procurement”?
What decisions on all these complaints were taken by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine?

These data also indirectly help to form an opinion about the winner of the auction and find out how he complies with the conditions of fair competition. A large number of complaints are not a reason for doubt. But their regular use to delay the procurement process and influence its results is another matter entirely.