Electronic trading platforms are sites that provide an opportunity for buyers and suppliers of goods, works and services to interact with each other via the Internet. Any organizations, individual entrepreneurs and individuals can participate in auctions and conclude transactions on the websites of trading floors.
Types and types of electronic trading platforms
- Official (federal), they are also called B2G (business-to-government). Here are tenders from customers - budgetary organizations.
- Electronic commercial platforms - B2B (business-to-business). Here the customers are business organizations. They differ depending on who organizes and supports them: buyers or, conversely, suppliers, or site owners are their intermediaries. This type of site is more common than the first two.
- The sites where individuals buy and sell are C2C (consumer-to-consumer).
- On electronic platforms B2C (business-to-consumer), a company, a legal entity, trades mainly with individuals.
- Specialized, for example, a platform for the sale of property of debtors (bankrupts) or operating within a certain sector of the economy.
Legal entities, operators of electronic trading platforms can be participants in the existing unified system in the field of public procurement, if they own the necessary equipment and means that allow them to conduct tenders. They receive the appropriate powers, fulfill all the necessary requirements, and then formally interact with the state public procurement website.
Official sites of electronic trading platforms
Currently, nine online trading platforms are active participants in the contract system on the public procurement website. Budgetary state institutions have the right to place tenders only here - in a unified information system. You can find their links on any page of the public procurement website. These are official trading platforms, their operators are legal entities:
- Sberbank-AST trading system (Sberbank-AST CJSC),
- United Electronic Trading Platform (JSC "United Electronic Trading Platform"),
- All-Russian system of electronic commerce (JSC "Agency for the state order of the Republic of Tatarstan"),
- Electronic platform of Russia (RTS-tender LLC),
- National Electronic Platform (JSC "Electronic Trading Systems"),
- All-Russian universal platform (JSC "AHRF"),
- Federal electronic platform TEK-Torg (JSC "TEK-Torg"),
- ETP Gazprombank (GPB Electronic Trading Platform LLC),
- Automated system of bidding for the state defense order (LLC "AST GOZ").
Helping to determine the most profitable counterparty in the trading procedure is one of the tasks of the online trading platform. Another, important one, is to ensure the security of the client's personal and payment information.
