Anti-record of public procurement in IT Russia: causes, consequences and possible solutions.

Russia has set an anti-record for the number of failed public procurement in the IT sector. In the 135 days of 2022, about 9,500 public procurement procedures in the IT sector were disrupted in the country, and 27 billion rubles were lost for the same reason. Wasteful, you must admit. A Russian computer hardware manufacturer and a Russian software developer are simply tearing their hair out. This has been going on for the third month now. How deep do you think our despair is? Century is turning into century, and the cornerstone issues in Russia, as always, are only two: who is to blame and what to do?

Global sanctions against sanity, disrupted logistics, and global semiconductor hunger are all helping to find the answer to the first exciting question. These are the culprits of the collapse, because of which we cannot safely choose and buy an office computer or device for our home.Of course, you don't have to be a prophet in your Homeland to expose the main reasons for such devastating statistics. They are all in the palm of your hand. The mass exodus of IT specialists to the promised lands after February 2022, the projects that were ruthlessly closed by our foreign partners and, in fact, the escape of these partners to their historical homeland. The culprits have been identified. Let's move on to the practical part: What should we do now?

First of all, do not lose your presence of mind. It has been demonstrating striking examples of Russian ingenuity from century to century in tandem with our ingenuity. After all, there are those in this chaos who selflessly make Russian-made computers. Our company, for example.

Secondly, we must accept and adapt ourselves to the new reality. Force majeure, which has overwhelmed the entire civilized world, is releasing new energy of technological progress before our eyes. It is she who is lengthening supply chains, forcing the "green presidents" to change their arrogant course, and the word black hole is consuming the element base and ready-made devices. That's the hardest part. But you can't go to any lengths to get our native customer, for example, a Russian monitor for an office computer.

And, thirdly, we must continue to do our job. And do it well. Sometimes against the odds. After all, today even the most convinced import substitution pessimists buy Russian-made PCs and install Russian-designed software on them. And they are not doing this because of the general hopelessness. But because they believe that a domestic computer manufacturer will definitely find an alternative way. And here the legalization of parallel imports in Russia is very useful.

The global economic crisis has triggered the disruption of government procurement in the IT sector. Add to this a decrease in the number of successfully completed transactions, budget cuts and the cumbersome public procurement process. And objectively it seems that it will never get better. In any case, it takes an idea, the means to implement it, and years to achieve the goal.

So what should I do anyway? Believe and keep working!