Prozorro Market

The Prozorro Market is the official tool using which customers can make subthreshold purchases. Today it offers a wide range of consumer goods.

Anyone who wants to become a supplier of a state-owned online store must understand the intricacies of placing goods in electronic catalogs. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the main nuances in this article.

Restrictions on the Prozorro Market Assortment

While it is possible to place many different products from one category in ordinary marketplaces (for example, two thousand lamp positions: from the cheapest basic ones to expensive designer ones), there are certain limitations in Prozorro Market.

Government customers usually buy more or less standard goods, focusing on the price-quality indicator, and the main goal of the CPO (Centralized Purchasing Organization) is precisely to meet the needs of government agencies for the most necessary goods. Therefore, certain unified categories have been created in e-catalogs, where you can add your positions. The supplier cannot arbitrarily create a new category – only send a request for its creation to the catalog administrators – representatives of the CPO.

Product Profile

A product profile (or uniform technical specification) is a detailed description of the technical, performance, and quality characteristics of a typical product. Products with the same basic characteristics, which are produced by different manufacturers of the product group, are considered typical.

Each type of product can have several profiles. For example, buckwheat groats can be supplied in packages of 0.5 and 1 kg. These will be two product profiles.

By adding a new category to the catalog, CPO first analyzes the purchases of customers and creates profiles of those goods that are purchased more often. This also imposes certain restrictions on the range. For example, suppliers may sell cheese in catalogs, but not Dorblu cheese, for which demand is low.

Basic Principles of Prozorro Market

The work of Prozorro Market is regulated by the Law "On Public Procurement", and the main task of CPO is to ensure maximum savings of public funds. Therefore, the following principles apply in e-catalogs:

1. Compulsory competition. The user cannot upload a unique author's product to the catalog, because then he will become the only supplier of such a product. This contradicts the conditions of competition, according to which there must be at least two suppliers of similar goods in the marketplace.
2. Efficiency and rationality. The purchase of watches with sapphires, phones in a gold case, or other valuable accessories is impractical since taxpayers' funds are spent on the purchase. According to this, state institutions can only purchase goods that are optimal in terms of price and quality, rationally distributing the budget.

All of the above conditions help CPO to form the assortment of the marketplace as efficiently as possible, covering the needs of 90% of state customers. It is important for suppliers to understand that these conditions are mandatory and to play according to the established rules. Because this is the only way Prozorro Market can help the government save money.

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