ELASTICITY OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN THE MARKET OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
In recent years, increasingly there is information about the unwillingness efficient suppliers to enter the market of state and municipal contracts. The majority of suppliers operating in the open market, it is advantageous to preserve their products to the market of private demand rather than to reduce rent (value added) in the market of the state contracts. Given the above, the author comes to the conclusion that the state contacts are interesting only suppliers who are not able to realize their goods on the market of private demand or such a market is not enough. The author analyzes the market of public orders of the Altai region in 2014, according to Russian official electronic platform for conducting auctions «RTS-Tender» and the rating of areas in which suppliers are showing least interest in obtaining contracts. The weakest overall attractiveness for suppliers in the market of public orders in the sector procurement of educational services, pharmaceuticals, real estate, fuel and food. According to the author, this situation is typical for Russia in general and is related to the elasticity of demand for the respective product. According to the results of the conducted analysis the author comes to the conclusion about dependence of the buyer on the market of the Russian state order and offers a number of ways to improve the profitability of russian public procurement. Keywords: State and municipal procurement, public procurement, state order, competition, government contracts, auction, efficiency.