Zhumadilov: Separate procurement of goods and logistics services means meeting NATO standards in nutrition
Kyiv • UNN
Arsen Zhumadilov, Director General of the State Logistics Operator, advocates separate procurement of goods and logistics services to ensure quality and safe food for the military in accordance with NATO standards through a transparent system.
NATO standards for military nutrition primarily require that it be of high quality and safe. This can be achieved through the introduction of a transparent procurement system. And its main element should be the distribution of procurement of goods and logistics services. This opinion was expressed on the air of the national marathon by Arsen Zhumadilov, Director General of the State Operator of the Logistics, UNN reports .
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According to him, the current model of procurement and supply of products to the army does not meet NATO standards.
"The NATO food standard says, first of all, that food should be of high quality and safe. The way the procurement model is currently structured according to this catalog, namely in sets, does not provide our soldiers with consistently high-quality safe food. So what do we have to do? We have to fulfill this NATO standard. We have to ensure its implementation through more transparent and manageable procurement for this need. Namely, how we will procure it - separately the commodity component, separately the logistics component," Zhumadilov explained.
The introduction of such a model will make such phenomena as eggs for 17 hryvnias and the like impossible in the future.
"We will directly purchase their products from producers through a competitive procedure. And, accordingly, in principle, even in theory, it will be impossible for us to have a product that is much more expensive than the same product in the chains," Zhumadilov added.
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Recall
After his appointment as the head of the State Logistics Operator, Zhumadilov announced changes in procurement, including food for the military. According to him, the State Logistics Operator will divide the 407 items in the catalog of food for the military into approximately 30-35 categories, each of which will have separate contracts and procedures.
"The price per unit of each product will be available to the public so that it understands exactly what price an egg, apple, potato, meat, etc. is purchased at," Zhumadilov assured.
