FIELD : information technology.SUBSTANCE : invention relates to electronic databases. Proposed is a method for automation of calculation of reference price for drugs for medical use, consisting of the following steps : data on contracts for the supply of a drug is selected from the database of the single information system containing the information on the procurement of drugs for state and municipal needs; contracts with the highest deviation of the price per unit of a drug compared to the average price are excluded from the selected data by constructing a set od order statistics; the influence of the volume of supply is taken into account.EFFECT : technical result is to unify the process of collection of information on prices of medicines procured on the territory of the state.3 cl, 9 dwg