Abstract: The updated Strategy of Scientific and Technological Development sets the task of forming an effective management system in the field of science, technology and production, as well as making investments in this area, and defines certain vectors of its development. The implementation of the provisions of the Strategy, which determine the need to change approaches to the formation and implementation of the scientific and technological agenda, financing of scientific research and development, scientific (scientific and technical) expertise, evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of scientific and technological activities, involves the transformation of the institutional and legal basis of scientific and technological development. The article analyzes the provisions of the updated strategy on improving public administration in the field of scientific and technological development, and forms separate proposals for improving the legal and institutional foundations of public administration of scientific and technological development. The research used the following methods: formal legal, formal logical, interpretation of law, as well as general scientific methods. As a result of research, conclusion is substantiated that the change in strategic attitudes in the field of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, the achievement of the goals and objectives of the strategy of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation implies a holistic modernization of the regulatory environment in the field of scientific, technical and innovative/industrial activities, activities for the introduction of high-tech technologies, including those aimed at improving the legal regime of intellectual property and its management, budget legislation, reducing the risks of business interaction with government organizations, creating a favorable legal climate for activities in the field of scientific and technological development, minimizing administrative and bureaucratic burden, primarily on state scientific and educational organizations. Separate proposals have been formulated on the directions and content of improving legislation.

Abstract: The subject of this research is the administrative status of state authorities and local government as well as other actors that are granted public competences as contract system participants. Based on the analysis of the contract system law and definitions of 'administrative status of public authority' offered by the administrative law doctrine, Kabytov provides a description of the administrative status of contract system participants. The author of the article pays special attention to the legal consolidation of the administrative status of contract system participants. The methodological basis of the research involves general scientific methods (formal logic, structured systems approach) and special scientific methods (formal law analysis, dogmatic analysis, interpretation of law). The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author carries out a complex analysis of the administrative status of contract system participants and gives recommendations on how to improve the current contract system law. The results of the research are of great practical importance and can be used in the policy-making process of the Russian Federation. As a conclusion, the author describes the main areas of the contract system legislation that should be improved, as well as a set of legal measures that are needed to be undertaken in order to improve them. This includes: 1. legitimization of grounds for reauthorization of control competences in the field of procurements between local government and state authorities of the Russian Federation; 2. improvement of the current law applicable to procurements through distribution of competences and consolidation of regulatory acts; and 3. establishment of formalized requirements and criteria for centralisation of procurements, and its efficiency evaluation system.