  In this work, we analyse a simplified frictional contact problem and its
variational formulation that has a form of the elliptic variational inequality
of the second kind. For this problem, we consider a numerical approximation
based on virtual element method (VEM). The novelty of our approach consists in
the fact that we deal with a discontinuous version of the VEM. Our analysis
concerns the error estimation between the exact solution of the simplified
frictional contact problem and the approximate one.
