The budget of the Astana Economic Forum has been approved.
This was announced at a press conference in the CCS by Ruslan Zhemkov, managing director of Astana EXPO-2017 NC.
"This year AEF budget was approved by the Republican budget at the level of 1.4 billion tenge. EXPO national company held open procurement. It all was published on the website of our portal. 6 companies took part in a large competition on technical equipment, design and PR support. The tender Commission met for several days and determined the winner, checked for compliance with qualification requirements and experience, and price offers. The winner was HB TV company . All information is available in open sources," he said.
According to Ruslan Zhemkov, for the largest conference of the country it is an adequate amount that meets all the needs, requirements and ideas. The speaker also noted that following the results of the tender, 100 million tenge was saved from the allocated amount.
"We have 50 sessions, at some points 9 parallel events are involved at the same time. At the same time, locations in the Congress center are used as the base primary location, Hilton hotel as a secondary location, Astana international financial center is very actively involved as the third location. As part of the AEF, there is also KGIR in the Ritz Carlton Hotel, which is another location. Rixos hotel will host a forum of our colleagues on the topic of customs regulation. This is another location. The national Bank and the IMF are doing concurrent sessions round table session with Christine Lagarde in Strgis. That is, for so many events, venues and locations the amount we believe is adequate," explained R. Zhemkov.