Budgets for the digital transformation of federal authorities. TAdviser ranking

The authorities included in the ranking in 2024 planned to spend 263.5 billion rubles on the implementation of departmental digital transformation programs (WPTT), another 380.9 billion is planned to be spent in 2025-2026.

The total share of the ten largest planned budgets occupies almost 80% in 2024, and exceeds 81% in total in a three-year period.

The data published in the FGIS Coordination of Informatization (FGIS KI) also show that budgets are expected to decline by more than 23% in 2025, and by almost 3% more in 2026.

However, as Albert Bertyakov, an expert in the field of state digitalization, noted in an interview with TAdviser, one should not forget that the ICPT is planned, not actual IT costs, moreover, having a systematic defect - many departments do not indicate in the ICPT real IT costs that pass through their subordinate structures. It is extremely difficult to track these expenses as of 2024, because since 2020 the register of subsidies has been closed (in some cases, the federal budget funds at the disposal of the OGV are transferred in the form of a subsidy or funds for the execution of a state assignment to "coronavirus" and, in accordance with the rules of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation, cease to be considered budgetary, automatically becoming its own means of "letting down").

The structure of planned budgets is divided into 3 main areas:

• creation and development
• operation
• infrastructure

Ministry of Digital Development leads in 2024 in terms of the planned budget, just over 54 billion rubles. Compared to the previous year, the budget increased by more than 30%. However, in the period until 2026, the Ministry of Digital Development moves to second place. More than half of the total budget is planned to be spent on operation, with a peak value this year and a noticeable decrease in the next two. These funds are intended to ensure the operation of the e-government infrastructure and its GIS. Another 40% is planned to be spent this year on creation and development.

"In the foreseeable future, the Ministry of Digital Development Industry will become the undisputed leader in IT spending, because it will consolidate all developments on Gostekh and the costs of expanding e-government infrastructure," Albert Bertyakov said.

The Federal Tax Service, the traditional leader in the planned budgets of past studies, is in second place in 2024, but comes out on top in the total budget of 2024-2026. The budget distribution structure is noticeably different from the Ministry of Digital Development, the dominant segment in the budget is infrastructure, about two-thirds. The main items of expenses will be the data center system hardware and external centralized telecommunications. Also, at the end of 2023, the Federal Tax Service announced a major tender for the maintenance and updating of equipment of its three data centers.

The EME occupies a dominant position in the total planned budget of the Ministry of Labor, more than 83%, so it was decided to withdraw this organization as a separate participant in the ranking and not take into account the Ministry of Labor in a consolidated manner. The budgeting of the WPTSS EME in 2024 decreased slightly (-3%). The main share for EMEs also falls on operation, almost 70%, this trend continues until 2026.

For Rosreestr, operation is a larger item of planned expenses in a three-year period and reaches almost 40% of the budget, more than 30% of funds are planned for creation and development. The main items of operating costs are ensuring the functioning of information systems for electronic registration of real estate objects and geo-information platforms. Less than a third of the budget was allocated for infrastructure in 2024, with a significant decrease in volumes in subsequent years.

The Treasury's main section of the budget is exploitation, for which more than half of the funds are allocated, both in 2024 and in the three-year period. Also, about a third of the funds are allocated for the creation and development of new digital solutions.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs allocated the main direction of the budget to operation, the share of which exceeds half in 2024 and reaches almost 75% in the three-year period. Compared to the previous year, the size of the planned budget for digitalization decreased by almost 30%.

The Ministry of Finance this year planned to spend more than 40% of the budget on infrastructure, and this distribution will approximately continue in the three-year period.

This year, Roskomnadzor plans to spend about 60% of its "digital" budget on operation. Another third will go to the direction of "creation and development," which can be explained by a project to introduce artificial intelligence tools into the existing information resource monitoring system. Within two years, these technologies are planned to be introduced for maintaining a register of personal data operators.

Last year, the Ministry of Health announced the main trends in the digitalization of healthcare, which included the introduction of artificial intelligence tools, the personalization of medical services and telemedicine. Almost 40% of the budget is planned to be spent on the introduction of new medical information systems in 2024. However, the main article remains the operation of existing systems.

The main item of the FCS budget is operation, which accounts for more than 80% of the funds. At the same time, the budget volume this year decreased by more than 40%, which can be explained by the completion of work on the commissioning of the main data center of the department at the end of 2023. The process of data and software migration will continue throughout 2024.

Source: FGIS KI

For comparison with the table that is relevant at the beginning of July 2024, a retrospective of data on VPTT passports for 2021-2023 is given (see below). Executed budget data is not available for this period either.

<sup>* In 2023, the name changed - Rosalkogoltabakkontrol
* * Abolished from 2022</sup>

Source: FGIS KI