A suspension contract for the election of the mayor of Novosibirsk was appealed to the FAS

“The Center for Humanitarian, Socio-Economic and Political Studies-2” (“Gapicentr-2”) complained to the Novosibirsk OFAS at the city election. The company saw a violation of legislation in a contract for a telephone survey on the mayor’s election.

The Omsk company Gapitzentr-2 filed a complaint against the actions of the Novosibirsk Horizburkom due to the conclusion of a contract for holding a hundred of elections of the mayor. The document says that the commission violated the rules for describing the procurement object, indicating there the need to use the CATI BellView program.

“[The designation of a particular software] entailed the restriction of the number of procurement participants with the ability to conduct telephone interviews using other computer data collection systems,” the company said.

Consideration of the complaint is scheduled for July 23, the website of the Novosibirsk OFAS said.

As Taiga.info wrote , the Gorizbirk ordered a telephone survey to assess the level of awareness of the election of the mayor of Novosibirsk and the predictable appearance for polling stations. The contractor must interview 800 randomly selected citizens with suffrage.

They were ready to spend 235 thousand rubles on the survey, the Contractor became the Ivanovo company Spectrum, offering a price of 88.5 thousand rubles.

In October 2018, according to the public procurement website, the Department of Information Policy of the Novosibirsk City Hall concluded a contract with her for a poll on public transport in the city. The Spectrum conducted a telephone interview with 1.1 thousand citizens.

The mayor’s election will be held on September 8, 2019. The election committee registered the deputies of the City Council Natalia Pinus (“Russian National Union”) and Evgeny Lebedev (LDPR), the former vice-mayor Daniyar Safiullin (“Rodina”), the regional parliamentarian Daria Ukrainian (“Green”), the acting head of Novosibirsk Anatoly Lokty (Communist Party), who was formerly Vice-Governor Viktor Kozodoy (Fair Russia) and businessman Sergei Pronichev (Growth Party), the commission said.

The general director of LLC Plus LLC, Alexander Gultyev (Party of Renaissance of Russia), deputy director of MKU Civil Protection of the city of Berdsk, Alexander Troshakin (the Party of the Great Fatherland) and TV presenter Julia Sapina (Civil Platform), were also registered.

Documents in Gorizbirk were submitted by a self-nominee, the coordinator of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny Sergey Boyko, whose signature is completed in the near future, the head of the peasant farm, Alexei Yuzhanin (Party of Social Reforms), Samom Pensioner Anatoly Babaev, self-nominean Andrei Vesner, Oleg Viktorovich (Party of Affairs), Party, Party, Party) Dmitry Kholyavchenko (“Yabloko”), Andrei Tokarev (native party), Alexei Peasant (the Agrarian Party of Russia), General Director of Imperial Stroy LLC Muhammad-Ali Hayurin (Vostorniye Party) and the head of the rendering of the “Communists of Russia” Sergey Loskutov.