OREANDA-NEWS  According to the results of the first ten months of 2024, the total volume of purchases of Lada cars on gostenders in Russia increased more than three times in monetary terms and reached 2.63 billion rubles. This is reported by RBC with reference to the calculations of analysts of the Kontur service.Purchases".

We are talking about purchases by companies with state participation. For the analysis, the experts used a search for purchases on gostenders indicating the brand of the automaker. For comparison, in January-October 2023, the total volume of purchases of Lada cars by state-owned companies was estimated at 813 million rubles. Thus, in 12 months, the indicator has increased by about 3.23 times. In turn, the number of state tenders for the purchase of Russian cars increased by 16 percent during the reporting period — from 370 to 429.

Experts have linked this trend to a number of factors. Among the main reasons for the sharp increase in Lada purchases on gostenders, they attributed, among other things, the developed trade and service network of the AvtoVAZ concern in the Russian regions. This circumstance, as noted in Rostelecom, allows for prompt maintenance of purchased Lada cars. The growth in demand of state-owned companies could also be influenced by the lower cost of Russian cars compared to their Chinese counterparts.

However, despite the sharp increase in Lada purchases in monetary terms, the share of Russian cars in the structure of public procurement of cars remains very low, analysts explained. On the basis of the 44th federal law defining the rules for the procurement of the entire public sector, it increased by 0.9 percentage points (pp), to 4.6 percent, and on the basis of the 223rd ("On procurement of goods, works, services by certain types of legal entities") — by 0.8 percentage points, to 5.6 percent.

In early August 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that officials switch from foreign to domestic cars. A month later, the head of state gave an appropriate instruction to the government and called on the Russian authorities to develop measures for the use of Russian cars by officials by February 2024.

At the beginning of the second half of October 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Trade published a list of recommended cars for Russian officials. The preliminary list then included the brands Lada, UAZ, Moskvich, Evolute and Aurus, as well as the Chinese Haval. In early July 2024, the agency updated the list and added Lada Largus, Gazelle, Sable and Xcite X-Cross 7 models to it.

AvtoVAZ, in turn, expects that the concern's novelty Lada Aura will be popular with representatives of the public sector. In the first half of October 2024, the head of AvtoVAZ, Maxim Sokolov, announced the launch of the flagship business sedan "in the coming days." As the representative of the concern clarified, the cost of the basic Aura model, created on the Vesta platform, will amount to 2.6-2.8 million rubles.