The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) for the Chelyabinsk Region is preparing to initiate a case against OOO Rifarm M (Moscow), OOO Pharmsklad (Sosnovsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region), OOO Porter (Moscow Region) and OOO A-Pharm (Ufa). This was reported by the press service of the regional department.
Signs of violation of the antimonopoly legislation were revealed as a result of a joint unscheduled on-site inspection with law enforcement officers in relation to OOO Pharmsklad. In the presence of witnesses and a representative of the organization, employees of the Chelyabinsk Office of the FAS of Russia and the officers of enforcement authorities examined the premises and studied the documents of the limited liability company at the address of its registration.
As a result of the audit, signs of the conclusion of several anti-competitive cartels-type agreements are observed in the actions of the following economic entities: OOO Rifarm M, OOO Farmsklad and OOO Porter; OOO Farmsklad and OOO Porter; OOO Farmsklad, OOO Porter and OOO A-Pharm; OOO Porter and OOO A-Pharm.
These companies participated in competitive bidding procedures held in accordance with the legislation on the contract system and the legislation on the procurement of goods, works, services by certain types of legal entities, including within the framework of the national projects implementation.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Chelyabinsk Region described the signs of anti-competitive agreements:
– personnel work (recruitment, recruitment and dismissal, transfer of employees) for these economic entities was performed by the employees of OOO Rifarm M;
– the seals of OOO Rifarm M, OOO Farmsklad and other legal entities were found at the registered address;
– during the inspection of the premises, an official note and an explanatory note from the employees of OOO Rifarm M were found, which indicate the deliberate submission of applications from several participants in two auctions. The total amount of the initial prices of contracts in their respect is more than 60 million rubles;
– OOO Rifarm M, OOO Farmsklad, OOO Porter and OOO A-Pharm, when participating in the competitive bidding in 2019-2021, used the same IP address owned by an individual entrepreneur who selected auctions for OOO Rifarm M and OOO Porter during these years;
– the details of the application files match;
– a number of behavioral models were used, including “the carousel”, “the only winner”, “the only supplier”;
– in most of the studied competitive bidding procedures, economic entities submitted applications one after another in a short period of time, not more than several minutes.