under the control of Slovensko.sk, the suppliers are suing the Supreme Audit Office. He had to compare their module with the alternative (+ state statements)
The inspectors allegedly compare “pears with apples”, says the executive director of GlobalTel.
- The state paid almost the entire amount of 3.2 love for the delivery of the module, the dispute occurred during the final testing and did not pay for it.
- The supplier claims that the state did not make available the equipment on which it wanted to test the solution.
- The government agency opposes this.
- Vendors don’t care how they control the running costs of their solution and the same product.
The supplier of the Slovensko.sk portal sued the Supreme Audit Office of the Slovak Republic (SAO) for an inspection aimed at verifying the effectiveness of the procurement of the Process Integration and Data Integration Module (MÚK-P).
In addition, he focused on the overall contractual conditions between the company and the National Agency for Network and Electronic Services (NASES), which is responsible for Slovensko.sk.
Let us recall that the SAO came to the conclusion that there was no reason to order a tailor-made software solution MÚK-P, because there were “box” software solutions on the market at that time. In addition, according to the final report, they were older and at the same time provided functionality beyond defined requirements and higher quality and safety.
They allegedly did not compare all costs
The supplier is a consortium of GlobalTel and Swan, which thus represent GlobalTel in communication.
Through the lawsuit, they expect an apology and “compensation for non-pecuniary damage”, which amounted to a total of 20 thousand euros.
GlobalTel states that the procurement inspectors compared with the Broadcom platform, which was cheaper at first glance, but it is said that without its completion, Slovensko.sk cannot be put into operation and the SAO no longer took the additional costs into account.
The costs at Broadcom were calculated by the SAO at 36,000 per year, while the solution from GlobalTel should cost 525,000 per year.
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“In fact, the contract clearly defines the operating costs at 14 075 euros per month, ie 168 thousand per year. But we’re talking about the cost of running today. In the case of Broadcom, the amount of 36,000 is probably just the price for it and thus does not include the cost of a complete ride, “said Global Bach’s executive director Martin Bachorík.
He also stressed that in the case of MÚK-P, no additional license fees are paid. “There are several cases where the SAO has compared pears to apples,” he said.
Dispute over deployment to the government cloud
NASES State in the end, MÚK-P did not take over at all, although he paid for much of it – more than 2.7 loves out of over 3.2 loves. This has already happened for the new management under Pavel Karel, who joined in 2020.
The unilateral withdrawal was justified by the state’s fact that the contractor “was not able to deploy the work in the development stage to a test environment in a government cloud”, so “or it is not even possible to accept acceptance tests and take the stage according to plan”.
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The head of the state agency Karel told Živé.sk that the matter was considered closed. “We have different views and I think the only one who can issue an opinion will probably be the court,” he assumes. Specifically, they calculated that the company also demanded additional payment of around 350 thousand euros for testing.
GlobalTel claims that NASES did not respond to the request for tests in the government cloud. “Although he requires tests on his designated equipment, he did not make them available to the consortium,” he writes in a press release.
NASES Deputy Director Martin Sulík denied this for Živé.sk. “They formed, for a long time revolved around the way the product spun into the government cloud. It couldn’t even be deployed. The supplier did not even try to do so, “he said. They also allegedly communicated with one of the government’s cloud suppliers – the company Aliter – which was also supposed to confirm the impossibility of deployment in the mentioned infrastructure.
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What can he do?
Bachorík also defends that he prepared the solution exactly according to the state’s requirements, and that citizens who have been able to access state services via mobile devices for two years now are said to be paying for its non-commissioning.
The co-owner of the companies, Miroslav Strečanský, previously declared to Živé.sk that the module can “translate services into a form that can be called from mobile devices”.
NASES manager Sulík called these words “very marketing”. “MÚK-P translates SOAP / REST, the technological protocol, that’s its meaning,” he described.
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ITAS: Lack of expertise projects are under threat
The suppliers are also supported by the President of the IT Association of Slovakia (ITAS) Emil Fitoš. He assesses that the state’s capacity to compare delivered and offered IT solutions at a sufficient professional level is significantly limited. From the state’s point of view, it can have an impact on entire IT projects.
“The case, which was to be resolved professionally and managerially, matured until a lawsuit was filed. We have an understanding for the state’s efforts to get rid of dependence on suppliers, if it is done unprofessionally and on the basis of tendentious arguments, frozen projects, halted development and possibly other lawsuits await us, “Fitoš thinks.