FAS filed a case against HP and Lenovo

Head of the Anti-Cartel Anti-Cartel Anti-FAS Department Andrey Tenishev

The Federal Antimonopoly Service has opened a new case against IT companies HP and Lenovo, according to Vedomosti. The ministry believes that the company participated in a cartel agreement with the state. procurement of computer equipment for the Federal Tax Service, the Federal Customs Service and the Pension Fund. The total amount of contractual trading according to the FAS has already reached 2.2 billion rubles.

“Before we started a new business, the amount of bidding covered by the cartel was 600 million rubles, now it is already 2.2 billion rubles,” said Andrei Tenishev, head of the anti-cartel department for FAS.

Suppliers of technology already came into the view of the FAS at the end of 2016. Then the agency came to check into the Lenovo office and filed a case against six suppliers of equipment for the GAS Elections system.
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The department came to the conclusion that the actions of six Russian companies on public procurement are coordinated by the Russian offices of Lenovo and HP. It was their equipment that was offered at the tender by Business Computers Group, LLC AMI-NETWORK LLC, KROK Incorporated and Superwave Group LLC. At the same time, the prospective contractors reduced the price by only 1% - the minimum allowable step in the bidding process.

Kraftway Corporation PLC and Akvarius Production Company LLC did not take part in the bidding at all, although they have preferences for state-owned enterprises. procurement.

“Analysis of the electronic correspondence received during unscheduled inspections of organizations, as well as other documents and information, allowed us to conclude that there are signs of concluding an agreement aimed at maintaining the contract price. Separate attention of the antimonopoly department caused domestic producers to refuse from competition, despite the fact that they could rely on preferences from the customer, ”said Andrey Tenishev in November 2016.

At the same time, the representative of Kraftway explained why the company did not take part in the auction: “Considering the previous experience of interaction with the CEC, when minor discrepancies in the equipment supplied led to the termination of the contract with a fine of about 40 million rubles, we decided not to risk do not participate in the auction.

The combination of data received by the FAS, and the fact that Lenovo’s Russian office strongly opposed verification (detained documents, did not provide data), led to the initiation of proceedings against foreign companies.