Federal Antimonopoly Service in Sverdlovsk Region found the educational department of Nizhniy Tagil guilty of a breach of the federal law regarding placement of orders for the supply of goods and services for state and municipal needs and ordered the department to get rid of the violations.

The case was brought about by a complaint from Parad Company that claimed the department had violated the competition law while placing its orders for the acquisition of a number of software programs meant for schools and colleges in 2007. The inquiry handled by Federal Antimonopoly Service revealed that the department did violate the procedure of selecting auction applicants since none of the applications, in fact, was able to meet the auction requirements: there were no agreements with Microsoft Rus Ltd. or with the company’s officially certified distributors who would be legally allowed to sell the software. This means no applicants should have been permitted to tender for the order.

The educational department of Nizhniy Tagil will now have to bring things to proper legal order.