The state corporation’s subsidiary signed a government contract for their informatization.
The company "RT-Project Technologies" (RT-PT) signed a government contract for the informatization of the public procurement system - now it will be responsible for technical support of a unified information system(EIS) in this area. At the same time, RT-PT performs the functions of a project office for updating the UIS; to maintain the functionality of the old version, the company will hire the previous government contractor for six months, and new subcontractors will be involved in the implementation of innovations, including the catalog of government procurement and calculation of reference prices.
According to Kommersant, Rostec’s subsidiary, RT-Project Technologies, signed a contract with the Treasury to support the unified information system for public procurement (UIS). The change of general contractor for informatization of government procurement - previously this was done by the Lanit group of companies selected at a competition in 2015 - was initiated at the beginning of the year by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov at the suggestion of the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury, explaining the transfer of an order worth 350 million rubles. per year to Rostec at the risk of data loss during a new competition.
According to Kommersant, it took RT-PT several months to dive into the issues of the Unified Information System. As the general director of RT-PT Sergei Yarosh told Kommersant, the order will be transferred to the new contractor softly: Lanit will remain a subcontractor of RT-PT for six months to ensure the functionality of the old version of the system, and the new functionality will be implemented by another subcontractor - Onlanta.
The “daughter” of Rostec itself is the de facto project office for the launch of the updated UIS. RT-PT is part of the Rostec system as an “anti-crisis manager” of non-core and problematic assets of the state corporation, and, according to its head, the company has accumulated “experience in analyzing their procurement and sales activities in conditions of incomplete and insufficient data - this will be the key competence necessary for the analysis and implementation of the main directions of informatization of public procurement.” Sergei Yarosh himself comes from banking sector, according to him, in RT-PT he had to perform the functions of “financial special forces” in order to return control over the assets and income of the state corporation to Rostec.
The very transfer of an order for EIS servicing from one contractor to a de facto chain of subcontractors will bring RT-PT only 6% of the price of the government contract. But control over the technical implementation of the UIS will allow RT-PT to offer information systems and services associated with it to government customers and government contractors on a commercial basis, as well as to optimize the procurement activities of Rostec itself. The prototype of the new system should be the information and analytical system (IAS) for drug procurement, also developed by Rostec. In particular, RT-PT contractors will have to introduce into the Unified Information System a mechanism for calculating reference prices to form the initial (maximum) bidding price, which has already been implemented in the Information System for drug procurement. According to the Federal Treasury, the current capacity of its data processing centers is sufficient to expand the required functionality of the UIS.
Let us remind you that the UIS, which has been operating on zakupki.gov.ru since January 1, 2016, - key tool increasing the efficiency of government procurement. The White House hoped to use it to transfer all government purchases into electronic form back in the fall of 2016, but it turned out that this was impossible: to standardize purchases and control prices for purchased goods, a catalog of goods, works and services is needed. Its development was supervised by the Ministry of Economy, where they complained about the volume of the task - the catalog should include descriptions of all items purchased by the state (3.9 trillion rubles per year). Due to the unavailability of the catalog and system, the transition to electronic procedures first had to be postponed to January 1, 2018, and then to the beginning of 2019: as the head of the federal treasury, Roman Artyukhin, explained, a year will be needed to finally set up the system and train customers to work with it.
Although the basic rules for creating a government procurement catalog have been agreed upon between departments, discussions on the details continue. Thus, Rostec sent its proposals to the White House to improve the methodology for creating a catalog, which, in particular, involves taking into account logistics services separately from the cost of goods, works and services, at least for small and medium-sized Russian suppliers, regardless of their territorial location , in order to involve them in supplies as much as possible and provide them with data on the demand and prices for their products.
The Russian government has chosen Rostec State Corporation the only performer government contracts with the Federal Treasury for the development and operation of the Unified Information System in the field of procurement (UIS) in 2017-2018. Within Rostec comprehensive service EIS will be handled by RT-Project Technologies JSC.
The government decision, taken in accordance with the instructions of Vladimir Putin (No. Pr-103 dated January 19, 2017), is aimed at a real reduction in prices and ensuring fair competition in procurement.
The UIS development project is based on such key elements as the creation of directories (classifiers), product catalogs, databases of weighted average (reference) prices, and an analytical system.
In the near future, the end-to-end process of implementing the UIS development project will be ensured, from systematic procurement planning to the conclusion of contracts. At the same time, at the planning stage, automatic generation of directories, classifiers and catalogs for all product groups will be carried out, as well as a transparent mechanism for competitive pricing and evaluation of the results of work and provision of services. The operation of the UIS will be supported by an automatic warning function about possible deviations in both price and quality indicators.
The advantage of this approach is the ability to automatically analyze large volumes of information online with the formation of preliminary price recommendations for all procurement participants, including regulatory authorities.
This will allow government customers not only to compare starting prices, reduce the number of routine operations involving manual entry and analysis of large volumes of data, and make timely and informed decisions, but also reduce the corruption component and ensure a real reduction in prices. Supervisory authorities, in turn, will receive an additional preventive tool to prevent violations in the field of procurement activities.
Currently, Rostec, within the framework of joint working groups with the Federal Treasury, has begun to develop a system project to develop the functionality of the UIS. This work will be carried out by domestic developers based on Russian software open source.
Previously, in accordance with the instructions of Vladimir Putin (No. Pr-1567 dated August 10, 2016), Rostec was also designated as the contractor for the creation of an information and analytical system (IAS) for monitoring and control in the field of procurement of medicines to meet state and municipal needs.
Within Rostec, all work on IAS is performed by RT-Project Technologies JSC. The project is being implemented jointly with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance, the Treasury of Russia, the Ministry of Economic Development, and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. Currently, the IAS has been developed. Measures are being taken to deploy the system in the data processing center of the customer - the Russian Ministry of Health. Preparations are underway for the start trial operation systems from March 1, 2017.
The company RT - Design Technologies (a subsidiary of Rostec), which the government appointed without competition as the sole developer of the Unified Information System (UIS), has found a subcontractor. The development and technical support of the government procurement website in 2017 will be carried out by “ Lanit” and its “daughter” “Onlanta”, respectively, follows from the information posted on this portal.
They provided the same services to the state before, but directly, until last fall Rostec became interested in the project and offered to give it the contract without a competition. The Ministry of Finance (this spring it took over procurement regulation) supported the state corporation: the change of developer is important and technologically complex system competition increases the risk of losing information, said the letter from First Deputy Minister of Finance Tatyana Nesterenko to the government. And in February, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appointed RT - Project Technologies as the sole contractor. The Treasury entered into two government contracts with the company for the operation and development of the EIS this year - for 175 million and 200 million rubles. respectively.
"Plato" experienceIt looks like the fate of the system for collecting tolls for trucks on federal highways is shaping up. The concession for Platon was received without a competition by another Rostec structure, the RT-invest company (25% from Rostec, 75% from Andrey Shipelov). The operator of Platon, RT-invest transport systems, is now owned 50% by RT-invest, 50% by Igor Rotenberg. This company also stated that it was considering the possibility of making money by providing additional services.
Rostec also did not choose subcontractors at the competition, hiring “ Lanit" and "Onlantu". For website maintenance from July 1 to August 31, the state corporation will pay Onlanta 58.3 million rubles, for its development - 199.7 million to Lanit until the end of the year. These companies have been working with the system since 2009, and their involvement will eliminate the risk of the system failing during its large-scale modernization, notes a Rostec representative. The task of RT - Design Technologies is a little broader, he explains: the company will create and develop a unified catalog of goods, works and services, which will allow you to quickly compare prices and automatically receive information about possible deviations in prices or quality. The state corporation is not currently trying to make money from the EIS, he continues: “RT – Design Technologies” will retain only 6% of the contract to pay off operating costs, and plans to receive the main profit in the long term from the sale of additional services (for example, certificates, see inset) . Rostec will seek to create a new regulatory framework so that new functions of the system appear, says a person close to one of the parties to the contract. When asked about possible changes in the functionality of the site, a representative of the Ministry of Finance promised to answer within the time limit established by the law on mass media (seven days. - Vedomosti). His colleague at Lanit did not respond to Vedomosti’s request.
“The development of the Unified Information System is a tasty morsel, and while the allocated budget resources are being redistributed, the question is what part of them is beneficial,” says Alexander Stroganov, head of the government procurement center: now this is not a useful information disclosure system, but a transactional portal. A change of ideologists can be useful to the system, and the market has a lot of wishes, says Yakov Geller, general director of the State Procurement Agency of Tatarstan - for example, for the EIS to analyze how in demand certain goods are.-
RT-Project Technologies will remake their IT system.
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov suggested that the president choose subsidiary company"Rostec" - "RT-Project Technologies" (RT-PT) is the only contractor for the unified public procurement information system (EIS). He notes that the risk of data loss when changing contractors is not comparable to the savings when conducting annual selections of performers. The company itself believes that working on the Oracle platform is unsafe, and they want to launch the EIS using domestic developers based on open source software.
Kommersant has read the letter from First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov to President Vladimir Putin - he proposes to appoint a Rostec subsidiary, RT-Project Technologies (RT-PT), as the sole provider of maintenance of the unified information system (UIS) for government procurement. According to Kommersant, the document returned to the White House with a positive resolution. A representative of Mr. Shuvalov confirmed to Kommersant yesterday that the First Deputy Prime Minister has already instructed the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury to submit to the government an act appointing RT-PT as the sole executor. The EIS, operating on zakupki.gov.ru since January 1, 2016, is a key tool for increasing the efficiency of public procurement. The Federal Treasury and the Ministry of Economy are responsible for its work, and the executor is now the Lanit group of companies, which won the competition at the beginning of 2015.
The White House hoped to use the EIS to transfer all government procurement into electronic form in the fall of 2016, but during meetings with Mr. Shuvalov it turned out that this was impossible: to standardize purchases and control prices for purchased goods, by the beginning of 2017 a catalog of goods, works and services. Its development was supervised by the Ministry of Economy, where they complained about the volume of the task - the catalog must include descriptions of all product items purchased by the state (3.9 trillion rubles per year) - and the lack of resources to solve it.
The transition to electronic procedures had to be postponed to January 1, 2018. Due to the unavailability of the catalog and system, the Ministry of Economy proposed to use the developments of the Moscow government, and the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury proposed to transfer the order to Rostec (see Kommersant of October 14, 2016). Igor Shuvalov supported the second option due to the risk of data loss, which is not comparable to the savings in the annual selection of performers. To transfer all purchases into electronic form, a “significant improvement in the functionality” of the UIS is needed, the official noted, and RT-PT “has technical resources and highly qualified specialists” (another Rostec subsidiary, RT-Invest Transport Systems, has already launched 2014, the Platon system, which controls the collection of tolls from trucks heavier than 12 tons). Deputy Minister of Economy Yevgeny Elin, who oversees procurement, explained to Kommersant that “we are talking about changing the contractor of the Federal Treasury.” “The Ministry of Economy does not expect a deterioration in the work of the EIS in this regard,” he noted.
As a source close to the state corporation explained to Kommersant, RT-Project Technologies will be an operator that will attract other companies - inside or outside Rostec. The Kommersant company said that now the “critically important system” is implemented on the Oracle platform, which carries the risk of “information leakage, remote shutdown systems or sanction pressure." According to the managing director of RT-PT Alexander Nazarov, a new UIS needs to be created "based on Russian software with open source code and by domestic developers", using "big data, robotic maintenance of classifiers and directory directories" to create it , methods of artificial intelligence and multifactor predictive analysis of the subject of procurement at all stages." The "universal prototype" of the new system should be the information and analytical system (IAS) for drug procurement - the president instructed Rostec and several departments to create it in August 2016.
Restarting the UIS in 2017-2019 will cost 350 million rubles. per year - at the expense of the state program for managing public finances (previously, the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, in a letter to Igor Shuvalov proposed doing this for free, on a PPP basis). Kommersant's sources in the White House explained that the transfer of RT-PT EIS will be controlled by the Treasury. It should be noted that a change of contractor may cause new claims against the previous developers and administrators of the system, since it will require a close study of the previous stages of project development, and in the management of RT-Project Systems there are many people who previously worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. In particular, Alexander Nazarov himself previously served as deputy head of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The head of the Rostec state corporation Sergei Chemezov sent official proposals to First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov on the issue of increasing the efficiency of spending budget funds in government procurement. In the letter (Kommersant has a copy), the head of Rostec stated his readiness to “create a company that, within the framework of a public-private partnership (PPP) without using budget funds, will finalize and further support a unified information system” in the field of procurement. Rostec proposes to appoint the Federal Treasury of the Ministry of Finance, which is in charge of the operation of the UIS, as a public partner of the PPP.
The EIS replaced the zakupki.gov.ru portal from January 1, 2016, and it was assumed that all government procurement would be carried out in electronic form from October 1, 2016, the system was set up until the beginning of 2017. However, the reform has been stalled for the second year, and Mr. Shuvalov in September demanded an urgent solution to the problem, instructing the FAS, and not the Ministry of Economy, to conduct consultations in connection with Rostec’s proposal to create a new information platform.
Rostec proposes to undertake the completion and maintenance of the UIS and procurement analysis, in return it intends to receive the rights to use UIS data for commercial purposes and income from the sale of additional information services (basic UIS services are provided free of charge by law). The project, according to Rostec, will make it possible to “optimize government spending on procurement activities by at least 1 trillion rubles annually.” The state corporation promises to launch the updated UIS in nine months and bring it to its designed capacity in two years.
The government apparatus sent Rostec’s letter last week for consideration to the Ministry of Economy, the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Treasury. The Ministry of Economy supports “the idea of developing the UIS through a specialized organization, which will eliminate the stages of competitive procedures and changing operators.” "The current scheme for the development of the EIS does not allow short terms introduce improvements into it due to the complex system of approvals and competitive procedures," the letter from the Ministry of Economy says. It also notes that the Ministry of Finance did not submit a proposal on this matter. Earlier, Deputy Head of the Treasury Sergei Guralnikov spoke out in support of the idea of a concession.
Rostec plans to finalize the UIS on the basis of a “universal prototype” - a future information and analytical system (IAS) for monitoring and control in the field of drug procurement under a Ministry of Health contract. The president of the Lanit company, which works on IT orders for the treasury, Georgy Gens told Kommersant that the idea of a PPP for the development of the UIS “may be reasonable,” but he considers changing the operator before the creation of the IAS, the settlement of the regulatory framework for the development of the UIS and the conclusion of a concession, noting that the Platon system developed by the joint venture with the participation of Rostec is much simpler than the EIS.
Sergei Chemezov asks the Deputy Prime Minister to entrust the FAS with determining the procedure for implementing its proposals, and not the departments currently in charge of the EIS. The FAS does not comment on Rostec’s proposal. A representative of Igor Shuvalov’s secretariat said that Rostec’s proposals will be considered after being reviewed by the Ministry of Economy, the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Ministry of Finance.
