FAS filed a case against HP and Lenovo

The head of the anti-cartel FAS department, Andrey Tenishev, the

Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has opened a new case against IT companies HP and Lenovo, Vedomosti reports . The ministry believes that the companies participated in the 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 case, the amount of the auction 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 Election system.

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 increment in bidding.

Kraftway Corporation PLC and Aquarius 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 an agreement aimed at maintaining the contract price. Separate attention of the antimonopoly department caused domestic manufacturers 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 participate in the auction: “Considering the previous experience of working with the CEC, when minor discrepancies in the equipment supplied led to the termination of the contract paying 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 the Russian office of Lenovo strongly opposed the conduct of verification (detained documents, did not provide data), led to the initiation of proceedings against foreign companies.