The system of public procurement that has developed in the Russian Federation is best illustrated by the Latin proverb: "What is forbidden to the bull is allowed to Jupiter." The public procurement reforms, which have been carried out for more than ten years, seem to be focused on full transparency and competition. However, according to the Russian Forbes, some companies receive the largest government contracts regardless of the rules. And all in all, these same "some companies" took orders totaling over a trillion rubles.
10. Alexander Lavlentsev
The rating is opened by the owner of IFSK ARKS, who regularly receives large construction contracts in the capital and the Moscow region. Last year, he signed several contracts worth 35.9 billion rubles, for example, for the reconstruction of the A-101 highway and the construction of a transport interchange in Moscow.
9. Ivan Shabalov
The sole owner of Pipe Innovative Technologies once again bypassed the Federal Antimonopoly Service and became the main supplier of large-diameter pipes for Gazprom worth 38.1 billion rubles.
8. Aras Agalarov
The Crocus International company, 100% of which belongs to Agalarov, last year received several juicy morsels from the hands of the Federal Road Agency and the Ministry of Sports - the construction of several facilities in Vladivostok, a stadium in Kaliningrad and the Central Ring Road in the Moscow Region. The total amount of state contracts amounted to 69.3 billion rubles.
7. Dmitry Pumpyansky
Pumpyansky owns 49% of the shares of the Uralskiye Lokomotivy company and almost 100% of the Sinara group of companies, which lives and flourishes exclusively thanks to state orders. For example, in 2015, bypassing the competition, Sinara received a contract for the construction of trains for Russian Railways (118.8 billion rubles), and also undertook to rebuild the Yekaterinburg stadium (12.2 billion rubles).
6. Alexey Mordashov
The companies Power Machines (single-handedly) and Severstal (79% of the shares) owned by this entrepreneur received several fat pieces from Rosatom in 2015 for a total of 122 billion rubles. Thus, Mordashov took sixth place in the ranking with an amount of 97.4 billion rubles.
5.Igor Rotenberg
The son of the man who took the first place in the rating solely belongs to the companies Gazpromburenie, TEK Mosenergo and Global Automation Systems. Fifth place went to him for the amount of small government contracts - for example, the contract for the construction of the Grozny thermal power plant (27.3 billion rubles), received 49 tenders for the development of the Chayandinskoye field (the largest of them cost 39.3 billion rubles) and several orders in the field of information technology (340 million rubles ).
4. Kirill Shamalov
Shamalov entered this rating solely thanks to Gazprom's Napoleonic plans for the construction of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline. One construction of the Amur gas processing plant will cost Gazprom 790.6 billion rubles. Although Shamalov's share in NIPIgazopererabotka, which received the contract, is relatively small - only 18.6%, it amounted to 148.8 billion rubles.
3. Gennady Timchenko
The total amount of state contracts received by Timchenko without a competition was 161 billion rubles.It consists of a contract for the construction of a bridge across one of the tributaries of the Volga (12.3 billion rubles) and the same Power of Siberia and the Amur GPP.
2. Leonid Mikhelson
Mikhelson is a kind of outsider in the public procurement rating. The owner of a 43% stake in NIPIgazopererabotka got into it only this year thanks to the already well-known contract for the construction of the Amur plant (344.3 billion rubles).
1. Arkady Rotenberg
In 2015, he received government contracts for a pleasant amount of 555.5 billion rubles and was in the lead in the ranking by a strong margin. Including the construction of the Crimean Bridge (228.3 billion rubles) and the next part of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline (198 billion rubles) were given to Stroygazmontazh, which Rotenberg owns alone. By the way, in one of his interviews, Rottenberg said that the construction of the bridge was caused exclusively by his desire to support the country in difficult times. I would like to believe that all the initiatives of Russian citizens to support their native state in difficult times will be rewarded in the same way.