The public procurement system, through which contracts worth more than 28 trillion rubles will pass, is to be handed over under a concession. In other words, it will be something like the "Platon" toll system introduced for long-haul truckers.
The Ministry of Economic Development is working it out, and the Treasury is on board.
And many people who have dealt with public procurement will say: maybe this is a good idea, because the procurement website is one of the most miserable and bug-ridden sites in the country. Tens of thousands of people need it every day, yet it constantly breaks down, is perpetually under "scheduled maintenance," and even when it does work, it is impossible to use.
I have just one important question for the Economy Ministry and the Treasury: why did you, you filthy crooks, keep pouring billions into this website for years? You kept awarding new contracts there—to LANIT LLC, in my firm conviction, in exchange for bribes—even while everyone was telling you: enough, stop.
And now, as in the old joke—"well, I just couldn't do it, couldn't do it" (a deliberately childish, mocking phrase)—we shrug our shoulders and hand everything over to private hands.
Let's take a look at how much budget money LANIT LLC received for the zakupki.gov.ru website and its related information system. Let me remind you that the investigation into LANIT was one of RosPil's first cases. Five years ago, we said they were paying kickbacks, and nothing has changed.
UIS — Unified Information System OOS — Official All-Russian Website (zakupki.gov.ru)
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=1771056876015000029 — 143 million rubles for work on developing refined technical requirements for the further development of the UIS;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=1771056876015000003 — 525 million rubles for creating the UIS;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100003014000020 — 93 million rubles: work on the OOS related to the functionality required under Federal Law No. 223;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100003014000015 — 178 million rubles; work on the contracts registry and bank guarantees registry;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100003013000036 — 197 million rubles; work on implementing the transitional provisions of Federal Law No. 44-FZ;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100003013000019 — 292 million rubles; work on upgrading and maintaining the OOS;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100003012000061 — 167 million rubles; work on creating an adjacent system for publishing information under Federal Law No. 223 on the OOS;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100003012000060 — 165 million rubles; work on upgrading and maintaining the OOS;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100003011000074 — 746 million rubles; for the supply of a hardware-software complex for the OOS;
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100003011000020 — 1,293.6 million rubles; for the supply of a hardware-software complex for the OOS.
TOTAL: 3,799,000,000 rubles
Officials spent 3.8 billion rubles to create zakupki.gov.ru—the buggiest information system in the world—and now they are saying: nothing worked out, so perhaps it should be handed over under concession to a private company.
No investigations, no resignations, no apologies, not even an acknowledgment of their mistakes. As if nothing happened and those billions were never allocated.
I wouldn't be surprised if the private concessionaire turns out to be LANIT LLC as well. Although the competition from Rotenberg is very strong.