VTB 24 buys licenses of Microsoft for 1.6 billion rubles

VTB 24 bank purchases licenses of Microsoft for 1.62 billion rubles. It follows from documentation of purchase, information on which is published by financial institution on January 30, 2017. The I-Teco company acts as the only supplier.^[1]

VTB 24 buys licenses of Microsoft for 1.6 billion rubles

Within delivery the bank will obtain more than 146 thousand different licenses of the American company. Among them about 30 thousand licenses for the operating system Microsoft Windows, 30 thousand licenses for office applications Microsoft Office and also similar number of licenses of client access to basic server products (Core CAL, Client Access License) and client licenses of a credentials manager of Identity Manager. Besides, the list of the bought products includes the rights to DBMS Microsoft SQL Server, client and server licenses Lync Exchange SharePoint, Project and others. All solutions should be delivered till February 28, 2017.

Earlier, in 2013-2014 VTB 24 already carried out purchase of software products of Microsoft for 1.2 billion rubles. Then three companies participated in the corresponding quotation request: I-Teco, Croc and Lanit. The best terms were offered to I-Teco, with it and the agreement was signed.^[2].

Among other large acquisitions of licenses of Microsoft by the Russian state companies it is possible to remember purchase of Rosseti. In it the collective participant as a part of companies "Softline Trade" (leader) and Lanit which taking into account the procedure of rebidding, offered the smallest price of the contract - 2.033 billion rubles became the winner.

Tenders of Rosatom for 1.777 billion rubles and Rostelecom for 1.2 billion rubles were also among the largest tenders of 2016 for purchase of Microsoft. To Rosatom of the license delivered Croc, to Rostelecom - Comparex.

In 2015 the most expensive tenders for acquisition of products of the American software corporation were announced by VTB Bank (the starting price of the contract - 1.537 billion rubles, the price according to the results of an auction - 1.142 billion rubles), Transneft (the starting price of the contract - 1.423 billion rubles, the price according to the results of an auction - 1.401 billion rubles) and Rosselkhozbank (the starting price - 872 million rubles, the price according to the results of purchase - 859 million rubles).

In 2014 purchases of licenses of Microsoft were more modest. The right to be called the largest state procurement of 2014 belongs to the tender of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation with the starting price of 470 million rubles in which victory was won by LANIT-Integration company, having suggested to satisfy terms of the contract for 456 million rubles.

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