In Russia, create GIS for digital services in the field of agro-industrial complex

2024: The Ministry of Digital Science will create a GIS of digital services of the agro-industrial complex for the Ministry of Agriculture

On March 29, 2024, it became known that the Ministry of Digital Development would create a state information system for the Ministry of Agriculture for digital services of the agro-industrial complex (IS TS APK). The formation of the platform will begin in June 2024.

The bill proposes to clarify the powers of the Russian government in terms of the procedure for creating an IC of the agro-industrial complex. It is assumed that the new measures will make it possible to realize the possibility of obtaining state support by legal entities and individuals in the field of agricultural development using information and telecommunication technologies. At the same time, it is emphasized that the implementation of the program will not require additional budget funding.

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According to Interfax, the law on the creation of the IC of the Agro-Industrial Complex was adopted by the State Duma in May 2021. The operator of the system is the Ministry of Agriculture or, by its decision, the federal state institution subordinate to it. It is assumed that the platform will inform legal entities and individuals about possible measures of state support in the field of agricultural development, including taking into account the specifics of the provision of such measures by the regions; form and consider in electronic form applications for the provision of state support measures. Through the system, it is also planned to collect reports and control the communication to the recipient of state support measures.

The document says that before the start of operation of the IC of the agro-industrial complex, measures implemented in accordance with federal law using the specified system are not carried out, except if, in accordance with the legislative acts of the Russian Federation, such measures can be carried out without using the information system of digital services of the agro-industrial complex.^[1]

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The Ministry of Agriculture wasted money on the creation of GIS. 1.5 billion rubles were allocated for it

On June 23, 2023, it became known that the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Agriculture) terminated contracts with the developer of an expensive information system, for the creation of which almost 1.5 billion rubles were allocated. In fact, these funds have been wasted.

According to CNews, we are talking about a project of an information system for digital services of the agro-industrial complex (IS TS APK). The initiative was planned to be implemented in two stages. First of all, the systems under the contract of December 2019 for 65.5 million rubles were created by the company "Контролтугоу.ру." Then two contracts for the second stage of system development and its development in May 2020 were received by Force - Development Center. The cost of these works amounted to 547 million and 859.2 million rubles, respectively. Thus, the total amount of the project is 1.47 billion rubles.

The Ministry of Agriculture terminated contracts with the developer of an expensive information system, for the creation of which almost 1.5 billion rubles were allocated

However, at the final stages of the execution of contracts of the second stage, disagreements arose between Force - Development Center and the Ministry of Agriculture. As a result, in August-September 2022, both of these agreements were unilaterally terminated by the customer. Moreover, it is impossible to use the work results already provided and for the most part paid for.

As noted by CNews, referring to information received from a number of experts working in the field of jurisprudence, the current situation may lead to the initiation of criminal cases against officials of the Ministry of Agriculture. It is known that two proceedings have already been initiated in the arbitration court. The first takes place on the claim of the "Force - Development Center" against the Ministry of Agriculture of April 25, 2022 on the recovery of underpaid funds. The second, dated September 8, 2022, also comes from the contractor and concerns the requirements for declaring the termination of contracts illegal.

In the first trial, the first court has already ruled in favor of Force. If the appeal does not change the decision, it will take effect. Then the second proceeding, which is suspended, should automatically end in favor of the plaintiff. In the case of such a scenario, it turns out that the state spent huge funds without receiving any result.^[2]

Russian IT company sued 367.2 million rubles from the Ministry of Agriculture for broken contracts

In mid-June 2023, the Russian IT company Force - Development Center convinced the court that the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation illegally did not pay it 350 million rubles. under the project for the development and development of an information system for digital services of the agro-industrial complex. As a fine, the department will have to pay the former contractor another 20 million rubles, but the penalty may grow depending on when exactly the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation will make payments.

According to the publication CNews, on May 13, 2020, two state contracts totaling 1.41 billion rubles were concluded between the IT companies Force and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. Collectively, state contracts consisted in the development and development of an information system for digital services of the agro-industrial complex (IS TS APK) "in the amount of digitalization of the processes of preferential provision of services (preferential lending and agroleasing)."

Between the IT companies "Force" and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, two state contracts were concluded for a total amount of 1.41 billion rubles

At the final stages of the contract, disagreements arose between Force and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation on the execution of work, and in September 2022, both contracts were unilaterally terminated by the federal executive body.

On April 25, 2022, Force filed a lawsuit. During the consideration of the claim, the Moscow Arbitration Court on September 6, 2022 appointed a computer-technical examination, the conduct of which was entrusted to the expert of the subordinate Ministry of Digital Research and Research "Voskhod." During the proceedings, the judge sided with the company.

Due to the fact that the defects of the IT system identified by the end of commissioning are not significant, since they do not prevent the use of the results of the work as intended. The principal amount of debt awarded by the court is equivalent to those funds that the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation did not pay extra under broken contracts.

According to the general director of Force Yevgeny Efimenko, the decision made by the court confirmed that the company had not committed any violations, and therefore the client had no reason to unilaterally abandon the project. Since the claim was not financial in nature, no debt was recovered.^[3]

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