Vedomosti reported an increase in the volume of state purchases of fuel in Russia in 2026

The number of state purchases of gasoline and diesel fuel in Russia increased by 16-35% in January-August 2026 compared to the same period last year. Their monetary volume increased by 30-42%, Vedomosti writes, citing data from trading monitoring services.

Tenderplan reported that state customers placed 43,400 tenders (+16%) in January-August 2026 for a total of rub 289 billion (+30%). Rostender recorded 72.8 thousand tenders (+20%) for the same period in the amount of rub 341.3 billion (+42%). According to Kontur.Zakupki, state customers announced a little more than 90 thousand tenders (+35%) in January-August this year, and their total cost increased 1.8 times — to 490.3 billion rubles. The last two sites took into account data on small purchases when analyzing.

All three services note the largest volume of purchases in monetary terms in March and attribute this to the beginning of the high demand season. At the same time, the largest number of purchases was announced in June, according to Tenderplan and Rostender. The Kontur.Procurement system marks the largest number of tenders in February.

The leader in the number of biddings for the purchase of fuel was Tatarstan (6.4 thousand), according to Rostender. The top 5 also includes the Krasnodar Territory (4.2 thousand), the Samara Region (3.7 thousand), the Novosibirsk Region (2.5 thousand) and the Rostov Region (2.4 thousand). The leaders in terms of total procurement value were the Moscow Region (rub 27.5 billion), Moscow (rub 20.8 billion), Tatarstan (rub 17.5 billion), the Krasnoyarsk Territory (rub 10.2 billion) and the Krasnodar Territory (rub 9.2 billion).