Transneft purchased Red OS licenses for 836.3 thousand rubles.

2021: Purchase of Red OS licenses

As it became known on September 17, 2021, the Russian state monopolist of pipeline transportation of oil products Transneft, after a long expert interaction with the Russian company Red Software, began to fully use its operating system Red OS. Representatives of Red Software spoke about this editorial office. This information is confirmed by information on the public procurement website. Communication took place in mid-September 2021.

The interlocutors noted that the expert assessment of the Transneft operating system in question began to be carried out from April 2019. Employees of the state-owned company were mainly interested in the work of the Red OS server configuration in the Microsoft Hyper-V virtual infrastructure, the operation of the system in thin clients, and the implementation of measures to protect information in the certified edition of the OS.

Then there were more questions, and gradually by the beginning of 2021, independent testing grew into a joint pilot zone with the full support of Red Software specialists, "said representatives of the software company.

As for purchases, test licenses for Red OS were acquired by Transneft back in 2019. The first full-fledged procurement procedure took place in the summer of 2021. The agreement was signed following an electronic auction with an initial contract price of 840.1 thousand rubles. The name of the tender "Red OS" was explicitly spelled out, although the procurement documentation contained a remark on the admissibility of the proposal of any analogue.

The victorious Red OS developers eventually received 836.3 thousand rubles in a row. With a commitment deadline of August 1, 2021. The delivery nomenclature involved the transfer to the customer of 67 licenses for the system in the Workstation configuration in a certified edition and 15 licenses for the configuration Server of "," also in a certified edition. Both sets - with one-year technical support of the standard level. In addition, the delivery included 14 installation kits for, ON including optical discs, a form and a copy of FSTEC^[1] certificate^[2]

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