Moscow. November 2. INTERFAX - The Russian government has identified five law enforcement agencies that will carry out all their purchases in closed competitive ways. The relevant government decree has been published on the legal information portal.
According to this document, from January 1, 2022, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Federal Security Service (FSO) and Rosgvardiya, as well as their subordinate institutions and enterprises, should go to closed purchases.
All purchases of these departments (regardless of whether they are necessary to meet the needs of defense and security of the state) will have to be carried out in electronic form on a specialized electronic trading platform (ETP). Currently, there is one specialized ETP in the Russian Federation - the Automated System of Bidding for the State Defense Order (AST-GOZ), which was created in 2017 by Sberbank and Rostec State Corporation specifically for conducting electronic procurement within the framework of the state defense order.
The issue of conducting closed procurement by law enforcement agencies in electronic form has been raised in one form or another since 2017. As a result, in 2019, the government determined that the Ministry of Defense, the FSB and the SVR, as well as their subordinate enterprises, are required to conduct purchases necessary to meet the needs of defense and state security, only in closed ways and without posting detailed information about such purchases in the Unified Information System (UIS) in the field of procurement.
