OREANDA-NEWS. January 26, 2009. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) found that the Kirov Regional Health Care Department (the State Ordering Party) and the Kirov Regional Department for State Procurement (the Authorized Body) violated the Federal Law "On State and Municipal Procurement of Goods, Works and Services" in an open tender for the services of mandatory medication insurance of the non-working population in the Kirov region, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The case was initiated upon a complaint of "Rosgosstrakh-Medicina" Ltd.

Investigating the case, FAS Russia discovered the following violations of the state procurement legislation:

- The tender documentation specified that the contract price was equivalent to the initial maximum contract price and could not be changed by the bidders. Effectively, the "contract price" criterion was not established, which increased the importance of the criterion "quality of services and bidder qualification" from 20% to 100% of the total weight of all evaluation criteria, specified in the tender documentation. It violated Article 28 of the Law and had signs of an administrative violation;

- The Bids Opening Protocol did not specify the conditions for contract execution, put forward by the bidders, under the criterion "quality of services and bidder qualification", which contravened Part 5 Article 26 of the Law and had signs of an administrative violation according to Part 1 Article 7.30 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations;

- The Bids Evaluation and Comparison Protocol did not include information on the procedures for bids evaluation and comparison, which contravened Part 10 Article 28 of the Federal Law "On State Procurement…" and had signs of an administrative violation according to Part 1 Article 7.30 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations.

- The requirement, set in the tender documentation, on certifying the documents, included in the bid, by the third parties violated Part 4 Article 25 of the Law and had signs of an administrative violation according to Part 4 Article 7.30 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations.

As the governmental contract is concluded, FAS Russia has not issued determinations to the Kirov Regional Health Care Department and the Kirov Regional Department for State Procurement. FAS Russia forwarded the case materials to the Kirov Office of FAS Russia to investigate possibility of initiating proceedings on administrative violations.