Ministry of Digital Affairs creates a super application for officials for ₽0,5 billion

At the end of October 2021, it became known about the tender announced by the Ministry of Digital Affairs for the development of a super app for officials. It is planned to spend about 487.7 million rubles on the implementation of the project.

The winner of the competition will need to develop a set of communication services for all federal executive bodies, the Central Election Commission, regional management and state extrabudgetary funds.

The first to pay attention to the tender was Kommersant. The super application will be created to "increase information security and independence from sanctions risks," the technical assignment says. So far, it will be designed for 100,000 users.

Ministry of Digital Affairs creates a super application for officials for ₽0,5 billion

In the super application, the Ministry of Digital Affairs plans to combine the messenger, means for video conferencing, mail, cloud storage, internal portal, work with office documents and antivirus software. It is noted that the service can be installed on a mobile phone, as well as use it using a computer.

The first working prototype of the program for civil servants is planned to be launched before the end of 2022. At this stage, the super application will appear at the customer himself, in Rosstat, in the Pension Fund, the Ministry of Economy and the paramedic service.

By the end of October, 2021 more than 54% of departments use program obespecheniyemmicrosoft Exchange Server, but "because of sanctions the state leaves from foreign decisions towards decisions on the open code or domestic technologies", the interlocutor familiar with plans of digital transformation of state agencies told the newspaper.

The expert of the IT company "Contour" Andrei Melnikov believes that the new platform will help "concentrate all the business communication of government officials in a single and safe tool located in the state infrastructure."^[1]

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