Some of the costs of GosOblako, a unified cloud platform for government agencies, are spent inefficiently, the Audit Office found following an audit for 2025-2023 and nine months of the year. Some of the paid capacity was idle, the quality of the services did not always match the terms of the contracts; For some services, the market offers were cheaper than the rates of Rostelecom, which is the sole contractor in the contracts for GosOblako.
At the same time, the auditors stated that only Rostelecom can provide a full range of services. Due to the existing service organization plan, according to the Accounting Bureau, it was possible to save 16.6 billion rubles. money in the budget.
The Ministry of Digital Development believes that Rostelecom "provides services at the appropriate level, while the rates for most GosOblak services are significantly lower than those on the market."
"During the reporting period, the Ministry of Digital Development had comments, but they did not refer so much to the quality of service provision, but rather to compliance with contract conditions, reporting procedures and other obligations. The identified deviations became the basis for introducing penalties that confirm the operation of the monitoring mechanism for the fulfillment of the obligations," the ministry insists.