Latvian government justifies for latvija.lv portal

The Minister of Special Affairs for Electronic Government of Latvia, Ina Gudele, made a statement in order to debunk the attacks from journalists on the “business card” of Latvia on the Internet - the portal latvija.lv . The reason for the criticism was the unjustified, according to the opinion of information technology specialists, the high cost of the project - more than 182 thousand lats. However, Gudele believes that the complaints from the mass media are groundless, told NovoNews the Deputy Secretary of the Minister Tony Shabovich.

So, the journalists noted a strange coincidence that the planned amount of the santim to santim project coincided with the price of the only, as stated before, challenger - the company RIX Technologies . AA projekts has developed the charter of the competition, and this is not the first time that RIX Technologies has won the projects written by this company.

Ina Gudele declassified the charter of the competition. In her statement, she indicated that not one bidder participated in the competition, as she said earlier, but three. Moreover, the coincidence of the planned project cost and the price put forward by RIX Technologies is quite logical. Gudele referred to Cabinet Regulations No. 235 dated April 1, 2004 (“Decision Making Notice”), according to which, when making public the results of the competition, the estimated contract price should coincide with the price offered by the winning company.
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In addition, as stated by Gudele, criticism of the overestimated cost of the portal is groundless. The figures given by journalists (182 thousand lats) are not the cost of the site at the current stage, but the project as a whole. Now only the first stage of creating an Internet resource has been completed. In addition, this amount includes not only the development, but also the maintenance of the portal for 3 years.