Federal Tax Service of Russia will spend billions of rubles on updating equipment Cisco, IBM and Huawei

On October 5, 2023, the Federal State Institution "Tax-Service," subordinate to the Federal Tax Service of Russia (FTS), announced a tender for "the provision of services for system and technical maintenance of equipment and software." We are talking, in particular, about updating servers, switches, firewalls, disk arrays and other hardware solutions as part of the automated information system (AIS) of the Federal Tax Service.

The purchase is carried out in the format of an electronic auction. The initial contract price is 3.61 billion rubles. The Contractor shall provide:

• Consulting services;
• Services for routine maintenance of equipment and software;
• Repair and repair services with equipment and software;
• Replacement services for faulty equipment and/or its components;
• Testing services for certified measuring instruments of data transmission channels between customer facilities.

FTS announced a tender for system maintenance of equipment and software

The tender documentation lists the equipment of many manufacturers. These include,,,,,,,,,,,, and Cisco IBM NetApp Eltex Depo Huawei Mellanox EMC"." HP Yadro Aquarius Scala-R The selected contractor will have to serve the branch of the Federal Tax Service in and three Nizhny Novgorod service data centers in Dubna and To Moscow Gorodets. The Contractor, if necessary and at its own expense, provides maintenance of the equipment and software through remote access, for which it organizes an appropriate communication channel.

The Contractor shall hold the FSTEC license for technical protection of confidential information, as well as the FSB license for development, production, distribution of encryption (cryptographic) means, information systems and telecommunication systems protected using encryption means, performance of works, provision of services in the field of information encryption, maintenance of encryption means, etc.^[1]

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