A few words about some interesting developments in RosPil's current work. A complaint about the Khabarovsk Krai government’s contract for creating an internet portal for 25 million rubles (about 25 million RUB), which I wrote about earlier, was upheld. Even before the complaint was formally reviewed, after a media scandal, the customer amended the documentation—for example, it removed the requirement that the portal be based on the design of the White House website, www.whitehouse.gov. Our complaint was found justified (and, by the way, quite a few people filed complaints about this tender too—good for them).
After that ruling by the FAS (Federal Antimonopoly Service), the Khabarovsk Krai government withdrew the contract altogether. Link to the public procurement listing: http://zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=1161691 Full text of the decision: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X6oJFpxrvrG--Q6A51s5lLE8Y6tmZpYllwQH0OsxXgA/edit?hl=ru 2. A few days ago we filed a complaint about violations in a very curious auction for "The creation and development of an environmental education trail in Sochi National Park":
The auction is obviously corrupt. The amount of work involved in creating this miracle eco-trail is enormous, yet the winner of the auction is supposed to complete it in 10 days. In 5 (five!) days they are expected to prepare and coordinate with the customer a huge stack of documents: a trail network, a route passport, a plan for outfitting the route and its informational content taking into account current trends in the development of tourism and environmental facilities, a service concept for the route reflecting environmental, conservation, aesthetic, and safety requirements, draft designs for the trail infrastructure, a site plan (scale 1:5000 and smaller), a plan of the environmental trail (scale 1:1000 or 1:500), dendrological studies, and so on. In the remaining 5 days, the entire area then has to be developed according to those plans and sketches: improved, landscaped, fitted with MAFs (small architectural forms), the trail laid out, benches installed, fallen trees cleared from the area... And all this despite the fact that
It is hard even to imagine what could be designed in 5 days and then built and landscaped in another 5. But those ten days are certainly enough to make some good money, which is apparently what the officials are planning to do. Besides these violations, the documentation contains others that are no less serious. Full text of our complaint: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RF3BDPcq2A5zYzsNrZnrpVql0URKFexHTaCTwls37C8/edit?hl=ru 3. The FAS of Russia reviewed our complaint about violations in the following procurement:
http://zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=1457545 What is interesting is that at the hearing itself, the chair of the commission announced that the complaint was unfounded. The text of the decision still has not appeared on the federal website zakupki.gov.ru, but we received it by mail, and its operative part states:
Either miracles do happen, or it is simply a mess. Full text of our complaint: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bg782ZPrtGokNW2-1NJlCuw9qL47qLkkBRHWppv7Hc4/edit?hl=ru and the decision: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1VIKmJev3ovS1cx03afiButTz2f0uVsWzjVW65R53qQGJIAU4jh8gzXrQXHm5&hl=en At this point, the customer has made some of the required changes to the documentation and ignored the rest. We are following the case and intend to file another complaint regarding the part that remains unaddressed. 4. Here, by contrast, a customer caught violating Federal Law No. 94-FZ (Russia’s public procurement law at the time) corrected everything without waiting for FAS orders or administrative liability. For example, the Samara Region office of the FAS upheld our complaint about violations in the auction for "Preparation of master plans and land use and development rules for settlements in the Kinelsky Municipal District of Samara Region" (2 lots, total price over 15 million rubles), and issued no order because the customer had already remedied the violations on its own.
That is a result too. 5. One last thing. People have been writing that I have not said anything for a long time about what is happening with RosPil’s money. So here are the latest figures:
We have spent 1,328,597.20 rubles since the start of the project So the total amount of RosPil’s funds is 7,956,681 rubles and 36 kopecks.