OREANDA-NEWS. April 07, 2009. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) found that the complaint of "TorgTechOborudovanie" Ltd. against the actions undertaken by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Russian Federation in organizing a public auction was ungrounded, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia. 

The subject matter of the auction was supplying "kitchen utensils and tableware for the chemical weapons destruction facilities" as part of the Federal Target Programme "Destruction of chemical weapons stocks in the Russian Federation".

According to the Petitioner, the Unified Commission unlawfully rejected the Petitioner's bid for the auction on the grounds that not all pages of the documents included in the bid were endorsed by a senior executive or authorized persons and certified by the official seal of the Petitioner (a participant of the state procurement).

Investigating the case, the FAS Russia's Commission established that the Petitioner's bid for the auction was not duly drawn, in particular: not all pages of the documents included in the bid were endorsed by a senior executive or authorized persons and certified by the official seal of the Petitioner (a participant of the state procurement), which was contrary to the requirements specified in the auction documentation.

Therefore, the Unified Commission lawfully rejected the Petitioner's bid for the auction.

Upon investigating the case, the FAS Russia's Commission found the complaint ungrounded.

Reference:
94-FZ Federal Law "On State and Municipal Procurement of Goods, Works and Services" came into force in January 2006.

The Law is aimed at increasing transparency of state and municipal procurement, and preventing corruption and abuse to determine the best conditions for execution of governmental contracts. The main objective of the Law is to save state budgetary funds.

In 2008 enforcement of the Federal Law "On State Procurement…" saved the state budget around 260 billion Rubles, in 2007 -168 billion Rubles, and in 2006 -106 billion Rubles.