The Accounts Chamber has identified systemic inefficiency in public procurement of server and ICT equipment. According to "Kommersant" citing the Accounts Chamber's submission, between 2022 and 2024, the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Treasury concluded contracts worth 12.1 billion rubles, of which almost 1.9 billion were overpayments. The reason is the exclusion of manufacturers from the supply chain.

Equipment costing over 5 million rubles per unit was combined into large lots, which the factories themselves did not bid on — they could not or did not want to supply the entire range at once. As a result, intermediaries became the sole participants in the auctions, setting trade markups of up to 180%. Among the manufacturers whose products were effectively purchased without their involvement, the document mentions "Depo Electronics", "Norsi-Trans", "Aquarius", "Code of Security", and others.

The Accounts Chamber proposed rewriting public procurement rules by November 2, 2026. Key changes include: direct access for manufacturers to tenders, a mechanism for requesting and comparing prices, and expanding the GISP system so that factories can inform government customers of current prices for their products in advance. The Ministry of Finance stated that it acted within the law but is already considering adjustments in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

In fact, the auditors uncovered a scheme where the state paid for Russian "hardware" as if it were imported, losing money twice: first on intermediary markups, and then on lost competition among manufacturers. If the proposed changes are adopted, factories will gain direct access to government orders, and the budget will save billions of rubles annually.