In 2025, the Department of Internal State Audit for the Ulytau region (hereinafter referred to as the Department) summarized the results of desk control in the field of public procurement. The results demonstrate not only the scale of the work done but also systemic problems requiring attention from customers.
Desk control is conducted in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On State Audit and Financial Control" and is aimed primarily at preventing violations. Its key task is to timely identify risks before concluding public procurement contracts, giving audit entities the opportunity to independently rectify violations and thereby reduce the administrative burden.
This approach allows for proactive work - adjusting procedures at the stage of planning and conducting procurements, preventing situations from escalating into financial losses and litigation.
In 2025, the desk control department covered 7,130 public procurements (lots) with a total value of 199 billion tenge.
As of December 31, 2025, violations were identified for 826 lots amounting to 11.1 billion tenge. For each case, notifications to rectify violations were sent to the state audit entities.
Broken down by procurement methods, the data looks as follows:
These figures show that violations occur in almost all procurement methods, however, the largest share falls on the request for price proposals procedures.
Analysis of the identified cases allows us to highlight the most common problems:
Such violations directly affect the principles of equal access and fair competition, and therefore impact the efficiency of budget spending.