03/17/2003

The government decided to tighten even more the control over the expenses with Information Technology, after evaluating the data of the survey made by 4 Work Groups created by the Secretary of Logistics and Information Technology, of the Planning, Budget, and Administration Ministry.

The Planning Minister, Guido Mantega, signed an official decree on the past 14th in the Official Newspaper giving the Secretary of Logistics and Information Technology (SLTI)of the Planning, Budget, and Administration Ministry the power to follow up on all of the federal organs information about purchases and agreements in the logistics, general services area, and IT.

The official decree aims to finish with a problem detected in the survey made by the groups. Not all of the federal organs responded to the survey, which makes it difficult for the Planning Ministry to have a clear vision of spending in the sector. The data of Dataprev (social security ministry data processing) and Datasus (Health Ministry Data Processing), for example, were not related to SLTI.

The Work Group in software use licenses pointed out a total of spending in the Federal Government on the amount of R$ 62.17 million in the year 2002. The annual spending with the leasing of software corresponds to R$ 13.16 million and the cost of systems maintenance reached R$ 16.17 million. The major purchases of software were identified together with the Ministry of Defense (R 19.2 million), followed by the Ministry of Health (R$10.5 million) and Education (R$ 6.6 million).

However, this does not mean that the Ministry of Defense is necessarily the largest buyer of the federal government, since the expenses with software of other organs many times are imbedded in program costs and are not easily identified.

The major suppliers, according to the survey of the work group, coordinated by the director of DSI, Oswaldo Norman, are Net Control (R$ 15.4 million); IBM (R$ 10.6 million); Oracle (R$ 5.7 million); Borland (R$ 4.2 million); Funcate ( R$ 3.8 million); Serpro (R$ 3.7 million) and Autotrac (R$ 3.3 million).

The expenses of the government with telephony services verified in 2002 reached R$ 434.38 million. A map was presented showing the major concentrations of expenses in voice and data communication of the Federal Government.

The mapping of the expenses were restricted to R$ 304 million with telephony and R$ 88.7 million with data processing, and doesn’t include the expenses with data and voice processing of DATASUS and DATAPREV. On the map, the Federal District ( Voice: R$ 107.8 million; Data: R$ 71.9 million), Rio de Janeiro ( Voice: R$ 72.9 million; Data: R$ 42.79 million) and Minas Gerais ( Voice: R$ 14.54 million; Data R$ 1.6 million).