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History

2022

Mishustin approved the only suppliers of mobile medical complexes

At the end of November 2022, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving the only suppliers of mobile medical complexes (PMK).

We are talking about medical complexes for equipping mobile medical teams for primary health care, medical complexes for equipping mobile medical teams for professional medical examination and medical complexes for medical teams combined with equipment for mammography and fluorography.

Mikhail Mishustin

The only supplier of the first type of medical complexes is determined by LLC Production and commercial company "Luidor""." Two other types of medical complexes will have to be supplied by Torgovy Dom LLC.Vorsma

The federal budget for these purposes in 2022 provides for 2.75 billion rubles. They will purchase 235 medical complexes for the provision of primary medical care, 30 complexes for preventive examinations and 34 for fluorography and mammography. They will be equipped with special equipment and delivered to the regions by the end of the first quarter of 2023.

Mobile complexes will be transferred to 68 regions. Most of the complexes - 15 units each - will receive Penza, Omsk regions and Altai Territory, 13 - Novosibirsk region, 12 - Republic of Dagestan.

The mechanism for appointing a single supplier of PMK, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, proposed back in December 2018. According to the authors of the project, the centralized approach will provide an additional load of domestic industry, including defense industry enterprises, and will also minimize the risks associated with the administration of procurement processes. In addition, the mechanism will help ensure quality control of PMC assembly, their configuration and timely delivery. Shvabe JSC, which is part of the Rostec state corporation, claimed the status of a single supplier. ^[1]

Participation in the cartel in the supply of mobile medical complexes for 112 million rubles

On January 12, 2022, the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (OFAS) for the Chuvash Republic confirmed the existence of a cartel in the supply of mobile medical complexes in the region. Ideal LLC (Cheboksary) and Vorsma Trading House LLC (Nizhny Novgorod Region) were recognized as violators of paragraph 2 of part 1 of article 11 of the Law on Protection of Competition.

These companies, according to the antimonopoly department, entered into an anti-competitive agreement, which made it possible to minimize the initial maximum price of the contract (0.5%) for the purchase of 16 mobile medical complexes "Feldsher-midwife station." The initial maximum contract price was more than 112 million rubles. The tender was won by Ideal LLC from Cheboksary for 111.6 million rubles.

FAS revealed in Chuvashia cartel in the supply of mobile medical complexes for 112 million rubles

Also, the OFAS found that the cartel participants were in active correspondence, exchanged files by mail and prepared bids together. Subsequently, the winner of the auction bought the goods from the "passive" bidder at a price significantly different from the price set as a result of the auction (almost a third lower).

The totality of documents and information confirms that the auction participants entered into an oral anti-competitive agreement, the purpose of which was to maintain the price and ensure victory at the auction of a certain cartel participant, "said Anna Shevchenko, head of the commodity markets department, quoted by the OFAS press service.

The reason for the investigation into the companies was the appeal of the FSB Directorate for Chuvashia, which contained information about the acquisition by the winner of the tender - Ideal LLC - of mobile medical complexes from a competitor at the auction the day before the results of the tender were summed up at a price 24.2% less than the final price during the bidding on public procurement. ^[2]

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