The State Duma has given the right to purchase special equipment from a single supplier for the External Intelligence Service and the Federal Security Service
24 November 2014, Monday
The State Duma adopted the law giving Russian External Intelligence Service and the Federal Security Service the right to purchase special equipment for their activities from a single supplier and no independent examination. The document was adopted by the deputies in the second and third reading.
The law allows for procurement of goods, works and services in order to ensure enforcement Russian External Intelligence Service means of intelligence activities, and the Federal Security Service agents counterintelligence and counter-terrorism with a single supplier. The contract in this case can be made in any form, the customer has the right to require enforcement of the contract notice on the implementation of the procurement or in the draft contract.
Lists of goods, works and services, procurement which can be carried out with a single supplier, will be approved by the leaders respectively foreign intelligence organ and the FSB. This eliminates the mandatory independent examination of the delivered goods, works, services rendered.
The State Council of Tatarstan discussed the results of the socio-economic development of the republic in 2025. Iskander Bagautdinov, Deputy Chairman of the RT State Procurement Committee, took part in the meeting.
According to the results of the first quarter of 2026, the savings of the republican budget amounted to 1.17 billion rubles, which is 1.6% of the total. In just three months, more than 18,000 contracts worth over 80 billion rubles were signed. Such data was announced at a meeting in the RT State Committee on Procurement.
The Agency has developed a document that establishes a unified approach to verifying customer notifications of contracts with a single supplier. In fact, such notifications are now an independent basis for control in the field of procurement.