Description of the procurement may not contain units provided by State standart

The competition authority has recognized the customer has violated the provisions of the Federal Law of 05.04.2013 N 44-FL. Description documentation of the requirements to the product are used nonstandard units. Thus, the temperature has been specified in Kelvin degrees, while it is shown in the State standart in degrees Celsius. The customer appealed to the court.

The appeal court agreed with the decision of the Court of Appeal declared the decision of the competition authority invalid, and noted that the Federal Antimonopoly Service in St. Petersburg did not consider the following:

- State standart approved for voluntary application;

- Kelvin degrees referred to the basic units of the international system of units, which follows from the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation of 31.10.2009 N 879, which set permitted for use in the RF unit quantities, their names and designations.

Such a conclusion can be drawn from the decision of the Arbitration Court of the North-West district of 04.13.2015 on the case N A56-28868 / 2014.