The increase of efficiency of counteraction of corruption in public procurement.

This article is devoted to the problem of corruption in the public procurement system. The main purpose of the article is to develop possible directions of their elimination on the basis of the revealed features of corruption manifestation. The article defines the object of corruption as a set of financial resources serving financial relations associated with the procurement for state and municipal needs, and the procurement of goods, works and services by individual legal entities. During the period under review, there was an increase in the number of contracts concluded. The bulk of public procurement was conducted by means of electronic auction and procurement from a single supplier. Features of manifestation of corruption in the sphere of public procurement are revealed: criminal conspiracy, bribery, underestimation of the price of the contract, corruption cybercrime. The study of the dynamics of the detected offences in 2016 and 2017, showed an increase of 2.5 times the number of crimes committed for a total of 118.4 billion rubles. The article substantiates the need to expand the systematic approach to combating corruption by including measures of social and psychological impact. In this connection, a systematic approach to combating corruption in public procurement involves a set of legal, economic, political, as well as socio-psychological measures that have both tactical and strategic action of anti-corruption orientation. The main measures implemented to improve the efficiency of anti-corruption in public procurement are revealed. The set of anti-corruption measures considered in the article is presented as a single complex aimed at curbing the growth rate of crime in public procurement