ELECTRONIC COMPETITIVE PROCEDURES AS A METHOD OF DIGITAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA
Background: one of the goals of digital economic development in Russia is the intro duction of data processing technology using electronic technologies. The development of the digital economy has predetermined, among other things, new approaches to the regu lation of public procurement. Traditional procurement procedures are increasingly being sidelined, giving way to electronic procurement procedures. Objective: to develop propos als for optimizing the process of public procurement through the use of distributed ledger technology and electronic procurement. Methodology: dialectical and logical methods of research, systematic research ones. Results: the level of electronization of public procure ment in Russia is analyzed and the need for the introduction of shared ledger technology in procurement is substantiated. Conclusions: the use of distributed ledger technology and electronic procedures will make the process of public procurement easier, understandable and easy to use, and as a result of it they will be fast and efficient. Digital technologies will also make the procurement system more efficient and effective, and increase the number of organizations wishing to participate in procurement procedures.