Moscow will hold a competitive selection procedure in electronic form for the conclusion of an offset agreement (a state agreement providing for counter-investment obligations) for the supply of consumables for the city’s blood service. Sergei Sobyanin signed a corresponding order, according to the official website of Moscow’s mayor.
“Under the terms of the contract, the supplier/investor will undertake to localize the production of 14 types of medical supplies for the city’s blood service (plasmapheresis centrifuge bowls, containers, sterile solutions, etc.) in the capital within two years,” the message says.
Private investments in the project should amount to at least 500 million rubles. The production will be organized at one of the sites of Technopolis Moscow Special economic zone.
In its turn, the Government of Moscow acting through the customer of the products, O. K. Gavrilov Blood Center, will undertake to purchase manufactured products over the period of eight years.
“This way, the city guarantees the stability of disposabel supplies for the blood service,” the mayor’s office stressed.
The Moscow government has previously concluded five offset contracts with a total volume of purchase amounting to 72.7 billion rubles. Four of them intend to organize the production of medicines and medical products, and one plans to make baby food.
Three industrial enterprises have already been put into operation and have started supplying products for the needs of the city.
Since July 2022, the minimum investment threshold for the creation or modernization of production under offset contracts has been reduced from 1 billion to 100 million rubles. This made it possible to expand the scope of use for such contracts.
Decisions were made to conclude 10 offset contracts for the organization of production of medicines, medical supplies, medical furniture, batteries for electric wheelchairs, and other products. The total amount of private investment in the new offset agreements should be at least 6.7 billion rubles.