How they saw at the Ministry of Health

Yesterday's resignation of the First Deputy Minister of Health of the Chelyabinsk Region M. Moskvicheva http://podoprigora74.livejournal.com/152895.html is unlikely to alleviate the severity of the scandal associated with the extremely dubious competition for the supply of servers and other computer equipment worth 112 million rubles, announced by this ministry . http://podoprigora74.livejournal.com/151596.html .

Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Health changed the AUCTION DOCUMENTATION and removed the orders of 115 (!) powerful and most expensive servers and replaced them with simpler and cheaper ones - without changing, however, the starting price of the auction.

I turned to specialists with a request to carefully study the competition documentation and received an answer yesterday that surprised everyone.

It turned out that the servers are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to these, the ministry is purchasing more than 4 thousand original – almost unique computers.

A summary of the expert assessment is below. Read it, you won't regret it!

First of all, it became clear: what exactly is being purchased for Bobrovka, Filimonovo and other Chelyabinsk rural health care facilities. Attached on the Kraftway website is a colorful presentation of an IT solution for a new ultra-modern hospital http://www.kraftway.ru/solutions/solution4medecine.pdf According to the description, the Kraftway documentation and the auction requirements are similar as a mirror image.

The question arises: who and why made the decision to distribute in all health care facilities of the Chelyabinsk region an information system that was only being tested in elite metropolitan clinics, where there is a developed infrastructure and completely different financial capabilities. Indeed, according to the presentation of the Kraftway company , “ The testing and optimization of the developed complex is taking place at pilot sites in real healthcare institutions together with the leading developers of MIS: at the Russian Cardiological Research and Production Complex and the Russian Oncology Center named after. Blokhin."

So - Russian world-class centers are in the “run-in” mode, and here we have Bobrovka, Filimonovo and others - and are immediately put into operation, in public. It couldn't be cooler.

The same site shows Kraftway VV18 diskless workstations http://www.kraftway.ru/products/product.php?SECTION_ID=550&PRODUCT_ID=2141 , which probably should be supplied to health care facilities in the Chelyabinsk region in the amount of 4243 units.

The fact is that this is an original device - half computer - half set-top box, although it is on average a third more expensive than a regular personal computer (there were no other analogues on the Internet). (The Kraftway website states that the Kraftway VV18 thin client is a diskless workstation connected via a network directly to the server. Kraftway VV18 is used to enter information and display the desktop. All operations are performed only on the server. The software is installed only on the server, and The Kraftway VV 18 operating system is used only for establishing and maintaining a connection session.).

These characteristics determine a lot. Now the following is clear.

• All this equipment - not only servers, but also workstations - computers will lie like dead weight in our rural hospitals until modern high-speed local networks appear there and provide guaranteed power supply. It’s hard to say how many more tens of millions of rubles will have to be invested to make this equipment work.
• It is practically pointless to install this type of system in villages where it is not possible to quickly repair the network if it breaks. Failures when operating under such conditions are inevitable and the system is likely to go from breakdown to breakdown. Of all purchased equipment, it will always be possible to use MFPs as a copier. Until a computer service specialist comes to Bobrovka from Chelyabinsk, patients will probably have to wait a long time.
• One can only guess how much it will cost to maintain such systems for healthcare facilities. Maintaining such a unique system will require a lot of money, because its maintenance is based on the authorized centers of the manufacturer. What about payment for travel? There is a possibility that healthcare in the Chelyabinsk region will simply be on the hunt for suppliers of this equipment, while hospitals will not have enough money for the most necessary things. After all, receiving federal money for the operation of such systems is unlikely.
• Even without the cost of operation, Kundravy, Bobrovka and many other Chelyabinsk village hospitals have the opportunity to enter the Guinness Book of Records as owners of the most expensive solution for automating one workplace . Taking into account the infrastructure, it can easily exceed 100 thousand rubles. (For reference, the average cost of one personal computer that can perform the same functions is about 15 thousand rubles and connection costs another couple of thousand).
• Specific software KraftwayVV18 and Citrix makes the use of existing information systems of large hospitals problematic. What such an information revolution will lead to, if it does happen, is difficult to say. Probably to scrap the old ones.

In addition, it is difficult to talk about a real auction in this case. From the documentation requirements, the situation is more reminiscent of the purchase of unique products from the only monopolist enterprise - the Kraftway company.

This is indirectly confirmed by the composition of participants who submitted their proposals for the initial (maximum) price of the auction. Website information shows that all of these are partners of the Kraftway company (for example - Adaptive Technologies LLC - production and sale of water purification equipment, Moscow, 3rd Mytishchinskaya st., 16, post office box 119, tel. +7 (495) 969-24-64. The production and engineering company BIORAY (Adaptive Technologies LLC) is engaged in the design and implementation of technological solutions in the field of water technologies. One of the key advantages of BIORAY is the strategic partnership with the Kraftway company http://. www.bioray.ru/company/ , another participant of GSS-T LLC, Samara, is similar,http://www.gst-samara.ru/AboutCompany/History )

The question about the maximum auction price is also surprising : according to the latest change in the AUCTION DOCUMENTATION, out of the 135 most powerful servers, 115 were replaced with much simpler ones, which cost THREE - FOUR times cheaper, but the initial (maximum) price did not change .

What result can an auction give with the participation of a manufacturer of unique products, who, under the terms of the auction, has become a de facto monopolist, and his business partners? It is understandable, and looks more like a mockery of the law on public procurement.