State institute of Russian of A.S. Pushkin (Uniweb Platform of online training)

in June-July, 2014 Uniweb managed to win five tenders of the State institute of Russian of A.S. Pushkin for total amount of 345 million rubles at once. The institute needed to create until the end of 2014 information and education the Education in Russian platform, the electronic training systems and electronic rates and also a management subsystem educational process, control of knowledge and delivery of digital educational content.

Tenders attracted a number of the known IT companies and universities among which there is Lanit (with the solution on the basis of the platform of HyperMethod), Forecast, RUDN, Kazan Federal University. The victory of Uniweb became a bolt from the blue for them.

"This company is a startup, has no real project experience concerning similar contracts and has no sufficient personnel potential for accomplishment of similar amount of works in so short terms", - says the source close to one of participants of the tender^[1].

At the same time, the suppliers who offered the services in lower prices and having an excellent goodwill and long-term experience of works received slabomotivirovanny failure, he adds. According to the interlocutor of CNews, this situation is an example of how the state preferences can change the market for the worse.

However, in outputs of selection committee on one of tenders it was said that advantage of the request Uniweb was "existence prototype/design of the model of the interface practically to each of the functions required in the tender documentation", the modern platforms (Ruby on Rails) and also the tools developed on the basis of free licenses, which are not imposing additional requirements to a server framework of the solution.

Whereas, for example, in the request Lanita there was no functionality conforming to requirements of the technical project, and the proposed solution was proprietary and belonged to other organization (HyperMethod). At Forecast, in turn, the description of functionality of a part of subsystems, modules and sections of the portal was not detailed.

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