OREANDA-NEWS. July 26, 2012. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) initiated a case against “Rosatom” State-Run Corporation on Atomic Energy (“Rosatom” State-Run Corporation), since its actions violated the antimonopoly law in organizing an open tender (Part 2 Article 17 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”), reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.     

The case was initiated upon a petition of “ElektroLab” Ltd. received by FAS Russia.

In September 2011, “Rosatom” State-Run Corporation announced a tender on zakupki.gov.ru for the right to conclude a government contract for the works on preparing technical aids and transporting radioactive materials.

Devising the subject matter of the tender and technical assignment, “Rosatom: included in a single lot the works for developing, design, fabrication, testing and certification of equipment necessary to transport radioactive materials, as well as services for their transportation.

“Rosatom” State-Run Corporation specified a mandatory requirement for tender bidders to have a license for the right to fabricate equipment for nuclear facilities, radiation sources, nuclear materials and radioactive substances, radioactive waste storage sites, as well as a license for the right to handle nuclear materials during their transportation, which, in its turn, can lead to reducing the number of tender bidders.

“The Commission shall have to figure out how “Rosatom” State-Run Corporation justified a single lot for different types of works and to determine the consequences of such actions in terms of restricting competition”, commented Deputy Head of FAS Department for Control over Industry and Defence Complex, Andrey Greshnyov.

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Under Part 2 Article 17 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”, if organizers or customers involved in tenders, auctions, quotation requests are federal executive bodies, executive bodies of the constituent territories of the Russian Federation, local self-government bodies, state extra-budgetary funds, as well as if tenders, auctions, quotation requests for procurement of goods, works, services for state or municipal needs prohibits restricting access to tenders, auctions, quotation requests when such restrictions are not provided for by federal laws or other normative legal acts.