Remember the "Electronic Office of the Mayor of Moscow"? Media and blog monitoring for 23.3 million rubles. Number three on the FSCF (the Foreboding List of Fraudulent Tenders). Canceled, yep.
//////// Which is something I congratulate all of us on. Thanks to everyone who wrote expert opinions on this tender. It is a bit disappointing that our complaint was never reviewed in time. It was magnificent. It turns out Muscovites are not fools and decided to take the issue off the agenda in advance. Thus, the total value of the canceled crooked tenders now rises to 193 million rubles. By the way, the necessary disclaimer: *I have a realistic view of my own role, and of the role of the readers of this LiveJournal blog, in getting these crooked tenders canceled. And of course I do not believe this is solely our achievement. A huge number of journalists, expert bloggers, and others raise these issues and influence the authorities quite effectively. I think our campaign simply helps, in some cases, to create a critical mass of discontent. The cancellation of this particular tender is also the result of many people’s efforts. *And to end this post, I would like to address the Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, A. L. Kudrin: Dear Alexei Leonidovich, The Moscow city government, for example, has canceled its crooked tender for the "Electronic Office of the Mayor." That was the right thing to do. I suggest you take note. Because if you think you are the cleverest one around and that no one noticed that the Finance Ministry also set up a crooked tender for the development of a "Mobile Information System" for 15 million rubles, with a production and deployment deadline of 20 days, you are mistaken. We noticed.
////// It very much looks as though your staff, cheerfully skimming off about 10 million out of the 15, agreed to buy something ready-made instead, like the well-known "Medialogia" media monitoring system. So it would be good to have some conscience: cancel the tender and fire the crooks. We are waiting for a gesture of goodwill from you, because we remember that you are deeply concerned about fighting corruption. Thank you. Of course, we are waiting for a gesture of goodwill, but we are also preparing to start poking with a sharp stick. So I urge IT experts to spend a little of their personal time writing a review of the tender’s technical specifications, which we will attach to our complaint to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).