Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 25
By Ali Mustafayev – Trend:
Government agencies of Kazakhstan’s Almaty region concluded memorandums on cooperation with local companies within the framework of the "State Order-2018" annual action.
Kazakh companies will supply furniture, cartridges to public offices, as well as street lamps for local districts.
"We provide our local enterprises with orders, which allow them to work at full capacity. They will expand production, creating new production lines, increasing tax revenues to the city's budget, as well as increasing investment in the manufacturing industry of the region," said Ganibet Aubakirov, deputy head of the Enterprise and Industrial Innovation Development Department of Almaty region, Kazakh media outlets reported.
The official noted that the manufacturing industry’s production in the region increased from 250 billion tenge to 809 billion tenge since 2009, when the first "State Order" action was issued.
Aubakirov said the plan has yielded positive results already, as in the previous year, Almaty companies signed more than 12,000 contracts worth 809 billion tenge.
"Some of the concluded contracts will be valid until 2019," Aubakirov added.
The "State Order" action is aimed at increasing the share of Kazakh producers in procurement of state agencies, national companies and enterprises of Almaty.
