“The solutions were delivered to the customer in full in September,” Darchinov clarified.

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The State Duma apparatus has purchased 1,800 licenses for domestic analogues of the Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of office programs for deputies and administrative workers of parliament, an employee of a large IT company told Vedomosti and was confirmed by Stanislav Darchinov, technical director of the license supplier, the integrator Step Logic.

Instead of Windows, the State cambodia whatsapp resource Duma apparatus purchased the Astra Linux OS, and instead of Microsoft Office, the MyOffice package, a source told Vedomosti. We are talking about perpetual licenses with a three-year period for receiving updates. According to him, the total purchase price of the two solutions was about 52 million rubles.

The exact amount of the State Duma's purchase is almost 52.5 million rubles, according to information on the state procurement portal. Of this amount, about 23.1 million rubles were for 1,800 MyOffice licenses and 29.3 million rubles were for Astra Linux licenses. The starting price of the purchase was 52.7 million rubles. Only Step Logic's application was submitted to the competition, according to the competition documentation.


Representatives of New Cloud Technologies (developing Rostelecom's MyOffice project) and Astra Group declined to comment.

The State Duma press service confirmed the purchase of software.

A source in the lower house of parliament's apparatus says that this is a planned transition to domestic software. Now, employees of four departments of the lower house of parliament have switched to it, he said: "Then, as planned, the entire State Duma apparatus, the faction apparatus, and deputies will switch to this software." He also notes that the current purchase of 1,800 licenses was made for computers that work with the external network, with the Internet, and next year, the purchase is also planned for computers that work with the internal network - the intranet.

The transition from foreign solutions to Russian ones is usually accompanied by difficulties associated with the habit of using foreign solutions, say experts interviewed by Vedomosti.

Since the beginning of 2023, a number of large companies and government agencies have switched to MyOffice software, including the Aeroflot Group, which in addition to the airline of the same name includes Rossiya and Pobeda, and Moscow State University. In June 2022, VTB announced the purchase of about 100,000 MyOffice licenses. The contract value was estimated at 1.2 billion rubles. In September, the government of Tatarstan announced the purchase of 150,000 Astra Linux licenses. Rosenergoatom Concern JSC, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and MIREA have also switched to Astra Group solutions.