Programmers free of charge created the IT system for which the government wanted to spend 16 million euros
| Customers: Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic Prague; Government and social institutions Project date: 2020/01
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At the end of January, 2020 the Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic Vladimir Kremlik was dismissed for overestimate of tender cost of development of Internet service for sale of automobile vignettes — paid permissions to use of long-distance routes in the Czech Republic.
Vladimir Kremlik wanted to attract Asseco Central Europe IT company to the project and to sign with it the contract for 401 million kroner (about 16 million euros). But the prime minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis said that the contract was badly organized, and he personally did not approve it.
The owner of Actum Digital Tomas Vondracek suggested to hold a hackathon and to create the website for the Ministry of Transport free of charge. Besides, according to the entrepreneur, the Ministry of Transport should hold an open tender on creation of the website.
 | We want to prove that to sign contracts for 401 million kroner — absurdly when several people can make the same for days off — he explained. |  |
More than 300 programmers responded to Vondrachek's proposal to develop service. Selected 60 specialists who implemented the project in two days and made it absolutely free of charge from them.
On January 27, 2020 the platform for sale of permissions to driving through high-speed highways earned in the test mode. Before such coupons could be purchased only at gas station. Transition to electronic sales of automobile vignettes, by estimates of the Czech Ministry of Transport, will allow to save to the budget up to 120 million kroner annually.
It should be noted that department wanted to sign the contract not only for development of the system, but also for its service within four years after its start which was planned for January 1, 2021. The Ministry of Transport sent the offer to five IT companies, but only two among which — Asseco Central agreed.[1]
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