As I said, RosPil filed a complaint over a procurement by the Federal Treasury of the Russian Federation, which decided to spend another 778 million rubles on the zakupki.gov.ru portal, which has already had more than 360 million rubles poured into it.
Today the complaint was reviewed by the FAS (Federal Antimonopoly Service) and found to be justified at least in the part concerning the fact that the Federal Treasury unlawfully required FSTEC and FSB licenses for those seeking to bid on the contract. Now organizations without those licenses will also be able to take part in the tender. There is no written ruling yet, but we hope the complaint will also be upheld regarding the unlawful bundling of equipment installation work (8% of the contract value) with the equipment procurement itself (92% of the contract value). As for the insane and clearly unreasonable price of 778 million rubles, unfortunately, under current law we have no legal grounds to challenge it. This is where the question of the political responsibility of the Federal Treasury leadership and the Finance Ministry, which oversees the Treasury, must be raised. They are the ones who should answer why government internet portals in Russia cost around a billion rubles each. Update. I've removed the part about HP for now at the request of many people in the room. We'll look into that issue further and write about it separately.