Procurement

The Standard was approved as an internal document by the resolution of the Board of Directors dated 29 December 2018 (Minutes No. 327/2018) and put into effect by Kubanenergo’s Order No. 47 dated 18 January 2019. In accordance with the decisions of the Board of Directors, the Company adhered to all amendments to the Standard adopted by Rosseti. The Company’s collegial working body for the development and implementation of unified procurement policy, ensuring the proper level of competition in procurement, objectivity, impartiality, and transparency of procurement procedures, fair and equal treatment of all participants in procurement procedures, and choosing contractors based on the results of regulated procedures is the Central Tender Committee.

Procurement principles:

• Information transparency of procurements
• Equality, fairness, absence of discrimination and unreasonable competition restrictions against the procurement participants
• Appropriate and efficient spending of monetary assets for acquiring the goods, works, services, and compliance with measures to reduce the customer expenditures
• Lack of restriction to participate in procurement by establishing unmeasurable requirements for procurement participants.
• Transparency and manageability of procurement activities
• Professionalism and competence of employees involved in procurement activities of Customers
• Compliance with applicable legislation governing the arrangement of procurement activities, as well as anti-corruption legislation, including the Anti-corruption Procurement Activity Standard (Appendix to the Standard)

The methods to perform procurement procedures and the conditions for their application are determined by the Standard.

Procurement methods used by the Company

Competitive procurements

• Tender, auction
• Requests for offers, requests for quotations
• Competitive pre-selection
• Request for prices based on the results of competitive pre-qualification

Non-competitive procurements

• Preliminary selection
• Request for prices based on the results of competitive pre-qualification
• Price comparison
• Purchase from a single supplier (contractor)
• Procurement through participation in procedures arranged by product sellers

Participation of small and medium-sized entrepreneurship (SME) in procurement conducted by Rosseti Kuban

Since 2014, the Programme for Partnership between Rosseti Kuban and small and medium businesses has been implemented in the Company within the SME cooperation roadmap. Since 2018, Rosseti Kuban has joined the Programme for Partnership between the Rosseti Group of Companies and small and medium enterprises (Order No. 231 dated 6 March 2018), under which a unified register of the Partnership Programme participants was created (thereby, the SME becomes a partner for all S&As of Rosseti).

Since 2014, the Company has an advisory body to address the efficiency of procurement, including purchases from SMEs; this body, along with the Company’s employees, includes representatives of SME Corporation, JSC, the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programmes, regional offices of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the OPORA RUSSIA All-Russian Non-Governmental Organisation of SME, the Delovaya Rossiya All-Russian Public Organisation, and the Chamber of Commerce.

Key Results of the Company’s Procurement Activities in 2022

In 2022, the Company drew the balance on 1,493 procurement procedures totalling RUB 34,195.7 million. Using electronic commerce means, 1,346 purchases were made for RUB 32,571.1 million, which was 100% of the total volume of purchases (excluding purchases from a single supplier).

As a result of regulated procurements in the reporting year, the Company obtained an economic effect of RUB 4,566.0 million., which was 11.8% of the total planned annual expenditures for the purchase of goods, works and services.

The results of 4 purchases of innovative and high-tech products totalling RUB 1,214.5 million were summed up as of the end of 2022.