28 Dec 2018: Armenia has spent around 94.1 billion drams in state procurement in the first half of 2018, against the 70,8 billion drams spent in the same period last year, an advisor to Armenian’s acting PM, economist Artak Manukyan said on Friday, summing up the key tendencies in the system in the indicated period. Manukyan, who also heads the National Center of Public Policy Research NGO, says some 74,000 procurement processes are set for one year, 9,800 of which are not carried out due to various reasons. Thus, over 13% of the procurement plans were not realized this year.