Why Harmful Saving of Budget Means

Recently, calls to our agency have become frequent with the question, why huge budgetary funds are saved, when using the system of state procurement by the method of price offers - is it good?

Yes, indeed, in the open information access are called figures with a billionth order of zeros (8-9 billion annually), saved during the work of the electronic procurement system by the method of price proposal to reduce the price [1]. And this can not but cause people's joy and bureaucratic pride in such "economy".

Let's look at the essence of the issue with the help of quality management tools. The process is as follows. Active members of the society work by creating an added value, expressed in monetary terms. The whole society is interested in this work, but understands that it is still necessary to finance social programs (education, medicine) and irretrievable expenses (military, police, criminals). A decision is made to withdraw part of the financial resources from the operational public turnover, in the form of taxes, calling it the state treasury. To entrust members of a society that are not engaged in the creation of any values, to redistribute the funds of the state treasury in accordance with public opinion adopted in the first reading, selected by delegated representatives from society. These funds will go in two directions. First, those members of society who create not material values (social, spiritual, social, etc.) and, accordingly, return to the operational activities of society. Second, to where the return is not expected (shooting at a military training ground, "pumping" to other states, etc.). It is clear that the economy of the society is very interested that the abstract finances, as soon as possible returned to circulation (money makes money). Given this, our hired "redistributors" announce electronic bidding for goods and services. The system is simple - who will give the lower price, he will receive the order. We make the "discovery" - the value of the product (product, service) is determined by the totality of the qualitative characteristics of labor enclosed in it and the desired profit. Therefore, if you fall below the threshold of product quality (from profit as you can refuse), you get: "minimum price - the minimum quality." Thus, using the rule of Comrade Paretto, we get: 80% of the total state order is a poor-quality product, 19.85% is an acceptable and 0.15% saved state budget funds. Using the figures of the State Budget of the Republic of Kazakhstan [2], we translate these percentages into tenge:

- The market of state purchases is estimated at 5,423 billion KZT.

- A low-quality product was purchased - 4 338 billion KZT.

- unused funds - 8 billion tenge.

According to Kazinform [3], Kazakhstan's GDP in 2011 was 27 306 billion tenge. It turns out that "redistributors" used inefficiently 15% of our welfare. If we are happy with the annual GDP growth of 7.5%, it is clear that the 15% figure is just a disaster.

There is one more nuance. In fact, the system of procurement, through a minimum price proposal, corresponds to one state program of one African state. The essence of it is that, any single woman can apply, to the state body for the selection of her husband. Great idea, but one small nuance - her husband, she first sees on the marriage bed with registration in hand and a complete lack of options for the rest of her life. So here, the "surprise" of such a system of selecting a supplier of products, violates the main principle of quality management - the right to choose the consumer. As it is simple, the "redistributor" can not choose the supplier himself, and ultimately is not responsible for the quality of the product purchased for the people's money.

The main argument of the "fathers" of such a state procurement system is, of course, the fight against corruption. On this subject, I have a separate article, which I wrote after studying the endless struggle of bees with honey. But of course, within the framework of this publication, it is necessary to recognize that these are two very interrelated issues.

However, let's try to sum up our reasoning.

1. Undoubtedly, the process of state procurement must be built on the basis of the eight principles of quality management. Identify the consumer, and this, by the way, is a society, not a civil servant. Define a clear personification of the responsibility of managers and specialists who are carrying out procurement, rather than referring to software and computer equipment.
2. Work for specific goals. When a "machine" decides for you, it leads to the degradation of a person, as a person. If you trust the company to dispose of its funds, then your level of public manager should be high enough. It is necessary to train modern management tools and a very high-quality ideology of a civil servant.
3. To build key indicators of the effectiveness of the process of using state budget funds, where purchases themselves are only a part of this process. Do not operate with large-scale absolute figures, just tell me how much income per one enclosed tenge.
4. Savings or overspending of finance, this is an indicator of non-quality planning and operational management. We have already once experienced the slogan "five-year plan in three years" - we know how it ended. Only clear laws governing macroeconomics!
5. Strong feedback is needed to regulate the "sustainability" of the process of state procurement and effective development of budgetary funds on the basis of public monitoring and expertise. Self-testing and self-flagellation have long proven their depravity. The owner must control the proper use of his finances himself, in our case this society should become a society.

We were taught for a long time how to live, but did not teach how to manage your life. Let's try.

A.V. Banduro

Aviso@aviso.kz

Bibliography:

1. Tatyana Batischeva, financial journalist. (Http://www.forbes.kz/blogs/blogsid_49/)
2. Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The state budget of the Republic of Kazakhstan as of January 1, 2012.
3. Kazinform. Meirambek Baigarin (http://inform.kz/eng/article/2441319)