The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has withdrawn from Rostelecom in a row on the development of Gosuslug mobile applications

CNews reports that on December 19, the Deputy Minister of Communications, Alexei Kozyrev, sent a letter to the senior vice president of Rostelecom, Andrei Cheglakov, about the unilateral refusal of the customer to execute the mobile development contract for the state services. For 26 million rubles, Rostelecom had to develop applications for smartphones and tablets based on iOS, Android and Windows.


Alexey Kozyrev, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. Photo from the Ministry of Communications

In accordance with the terms of the state contract, your organization pledged to perform work from 07/15/2014 to 11/14/2014 in accordance with the calendar plan. However, as of December 18, 2014, your organization’s obligations under the state contract are not properly fulfilled. ” According to CNews, Rostelecom has completed the development of applications for smartphones by the target date, but has done almost nothing on the part of the tablets.

- excerpt from Kozyrev's letter

As a contractor for the development and operation of Rostelecom e-government, he receives contracts from the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media without competitive procedures. For 2014, several contracts were concluded between the operator and the ministry on this topic.
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The decision to terminate the contract will take effect 10 days from the date of notification, after which Rostelecom will have to return 30% of the advance payment to the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Communications will apply to the FAS in order to register Rostelecom in the register of unscrupulous suppliers. Hitting a company in the register of unscrupulous suppliers deprives it of the possibility to enter into any government contracts. But Rostelecom has the opportunity to challenge this decision in court.

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