BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 14. Electronic procurement saved Azerbaijan’s state budget 294.3 million manats ($173.1 million) in the first half of 2026.
Mirza Mirzayev, deputy chairman of the State Agency for Antimonopoly and Consumer Market Control under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, made the remarks at a training session titled “Public Procurement: Process, Participants and Control Mechanisms,” Trend's correspondent at the training reports.
He said the savings accounted for 14.7% of the estimated value of procurement.
Mirzayev said positive momentum was being observed in the digital transformation of public procurement.
“In 2025, the total volume of public procurement increased 1.6-fold compared with 2020. Last year, the number of electronic procurement procedures increased 4.3-fold and their value rose 5.3-fold compared with 2020. The share of savings generated for the state budget through electronic procurement in the estimated value stood at 17.9%. This result once again confirms that electronic procurement procedures generate real economic benefits for the state budget,” he said.
Mirzayev emphasized that the positive trend has continued this year. Nearly 3,500 electronic procurement procedures were conducted in the first half of 2026, with a total value of 1.7 billion manats ($1 billion). The average number of participants in tenders opened during the period was 3.5.
Mirzayev called on all potential suppliers to participate more actively in procurement processes.
“An increase in the number of participants strengthens healthy competition, expands entrepreneurs’ access to government contracts and contributes to making the positive momentum in public procurement more sustainable,” he said.
Source: www.trend.az
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