Public procurement: 1,595.8 thousand contracts worth 281.8 trillion soums signed in nine months of 2026, 39% directly

The headline of the post: «Analysis of public procurement violations worth 10.2 trillion soums identified in the Accounts Chamber's audits». The text itself gives overall figures by method of concluding contracts; it has no details of the violations.

Overall figure

Contract: a written agreement and a signature

According to the Chamber's analysis, public customers signed a total of 1,595.8 thousand contracts worth 281.8 trillion soums in the first nine months of 2026.

Breakdown by method

Method	Value, trillion soums	Share	Contracts, thousand
Contracts concluded directly	111.3	39%	238.5
Electronic tender	41.3	15%	5.4
Request for proposals	32.8	12%	50.2
Other electronic platforms	29.5	10%	21.2
Selection of best offers (competition)	26.3	9%	39.9
Electronic shop	24.8	9%	1,177.7
Cooperation portal	14.3	5%	44
Electronic auction	1.4	0.5%	19.1

What do the figures show?

The calculations below were made by the author from the numbers in the post (figures are rounded, so results are approximate):

Direct contracts have the largest share by value (39%) but only 238.5 / 1,595.8 ≈ 14.9% by number.
The electronic shop leads by number: 1,177.7 / 1,595.8 ≈ 73.8%, but by value it is only 24.8 / 281.8 ≈ 8.8% of the total.
Only 5.4 thousand contracts were concluded through electronic tender, with a combined value of 41.3 trillion soums: the average deal is much larger.
Adding up the methods gives 281.7 trillion soums and 1,596.0 thousand contracts, i.e. 0.1 trillion and 0.2 thousand different from the totals in the post: this comes from rounding.
The 10.2 trillion soums in the headline is about 3.6% of the total value (10.2 / 281.8). This comparison is conditional: the source does not say what part of all contracts the audits covered.

What is not known?

The text does not say what kinds of violations make up the 10.2 trillion soums, which customers they were found at or what period they cover.
The share of violations by procurement method is not given.
It does not say which data the analysis is based on.
The date of the post is not given; on our site it was published on 13 November 2026.

Note

This news item relies on the overall figures in the Accounts Chamber's post. The nine-month audit results (including the 10.2 trillion soums of procurement violations) are given separately in our news item «Accounts Chamber nine-month results». For details of the violations, see the Chamber's full analysis.