Lanit seeks to cancel Rosreestr's tender for the purchase of ICT equipment worth billions of rubles

In mid-April 2024, it became known that Lanit-Integration had sent a complaint to the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) about the public procurement of Rosreestr. We are talking about a tender, which involves the purchase of equipment for improving the information and telecommunication infrastructure of the department using VPN.

The corresponding competition was announced on March 15, 2024. Rosreestr purchases kits and systems for the departmental data network, telephone network, video conferencing platform and local area network. The sites of the Central Office of Rosreestr in Moscow and departments in various regions of the country are subject to modernization. The total value of the contract is 6.8 billion rubles.

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In its complaint, according to CNews, Lanit-Integration claims that the terms of LANIT-Integration for the purchase were drawn up in violation of the requirements of the laws controlling the system of contracts. In particular, Lanit-Integration indicates that heterogeneous goods, works and services with a weak technological and functional relationship are combined into one lot. Because of this, there was an artificial enlargement of the lot, which, in turn, led to limited competition. In addition, it is alleged that Rosreestr established improper and excessive requirements for procurement participants, as well as excessive requirements for the FSB license from the procurement participant.

In general, Lanit-Integration believes, Rosreestr incorrectly combined various components of network equipment, telephone communications, video conferencing and engineering infrastructure into one order. It is said that these products do not have a direct connection with each other and are not mandatory for one information system. On this basis, Lanit-Integration asks to revise the terms of the tender and allocate the purchase of unrelated products in separate lots to prevent unreasonable consolidation of the purchase.^[1]

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