Rosenergoatom purchased 2030 licenses for the right to use the Russian nanoCAD 21 Platform

2022: Purchase of 2030 licenses "Platform nanoCAD 21"

On July 6, 2022, it became known that Rosenergoatom, part of Rosatom, is purchasing 2030 licenses for the right to use the Russian computer-aided design (CAD) system "nanoCAD 21 Platform." The developer of this solution is the Moscow company Nanosoft Development.

Of this number of licenses, 427 are local (per PC), 1603 are competitive (installed on several PCs with the right to use at each particular moment on only one).

Rosenergoatom identified the supplier of this software during an open tender in electronic form. It was announced on May 12, 2022 with an initial maximum contract price of 139.3 million rubles. In the TA, the customer emphasizes that this is the maximum, not the final amount of the purchase, reserving the right to purchase a smaller number of licenses.

The winner of the tender was the Chelyabinsk company Normasoft. The Nizhny Novgorod company Arksoft tried to compete with her, but her application was rejected.

When submitting commercial offers, applicants had to focus on the initial prices of the so-called units of production: 49,108,41 rubles. for local licenses and 73,800 rubles. for competitive (in total - 122,908,41 rubles).

In its application, Arksoft did not reduce the initial prices at all. Normasoft lost 23 rubles. 42 kopecks From the tender documents it can be concluded that the customer after the end of the tender held pre-contractual negotiations with the winner, but the price offer after them remained the same.

The name of the purchased software "Platform nanoCAD 21" was spelled out in the terms of reference directly, without indicating the possibility of purchasing analogues.

Rosenergoatom's structures have used our solutions before, but in small quantities, "commented Alexander Vorobyov, commercial director of the company. - Full-scale testing was carried out and a conscious choice was made in favor of the flagship product "Nanosoft Development" - "nanoCAD Platforms."

As follows from the TOR, the recipient of the software will be not only Rosenergoatom directly, but also 15 of its subsidiaries and their structures - a total of 56 organizations throughout Russia, including nuclear power plants, institutes, research centers, etc.

Despite the lack of alternative procurement, the state customer still prescribed specific requirements for software in the TA. Among them - the presence of software in the Register of Russian software under the Ministry of Digital Development, compatibility with the domestic general-purpose OS Astra Linux Common Edition, performance on system blocks of the x86-64 architecture, etc.^[1].

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