Abstract
All state and municipal needs carried out through procurement go through the stages of planning, implementation, execution and control. In order to comply with the principles of the contract system, increase the efficiency of the use of budget funds, unify and achieve maximum publicity and transparency of procurement, the legislator has developed for each stage the tools and mechanisms that procurement participants are required to use. The article considers innovations in the procurement activities carried out by customers under the Federal Law of April 5, 2013 No. 44-FL “On the contract system in the field of procurement of goods, works, services to meet state and municipal needs” regarding the procedures of the planning stage. The purpose of the study is to identify problems encountered in the planning stage of public procurement. To achieve the goal, the author paid attention to the problem of the development of the formation process of planned documents by customers, starting from their first consolidation by regulatory legal acts and ending with their development and approval of planned documents. Studying the problem of public procurement planning, one cannot ignore the tools, mechanisms, hardware and software that the customer needs to use.