In this work, we regard public procurement as an instrument used by the state for indirect support of enterprises. In this context, we have investigated the place that public procurements occupy in the system of relations between the business and the state; whether or not we can regard public...

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of repeated procurements made by public sector customers from the same supplier. The previous surveys of “relational contracts” gave different explanations for the possible implications of such repeated procurements, but those surveys dealt mostly with...

This paper considers the consequences of public procurement reform in Russia in 2005-2006. We show that before the reform, manufacturing firms with government stakes, old firms and larger firms had advantages in access to government orders. In 2009 large firms retain their advantages in access...