Cloud Pa, who is pulling Sogei?

29 November 20212 years ago babelfish

What is said about the National Strategic Pole (Psn) for the Cloud of the Public Administration and about the role of Sogei. The article by Gianluca Zappa

The engines for the realization of the National Strategic Pole (Psn) for the Cloud of the Public Administration are heated.

"By January 2022 we plan to publish the call for tenders for the assignment of the National Strategic Plan", announced the Minister for Technological Innovation, Vittorio Colao, during a hearing in the Chamber as part of the fact-finding investigation relating to digitization and interoperability of tax databases on 24 November.

In truth, in May Stefano Firpo, chief of staff of the Ministry of Technological Innovation and the digital transition, said that the National Strategic Pole, that is the center that will have a certain number of national data centers on which to convey all the infrastructures they manage today the strategic services of the PA, could be launched "as early as the end of June".

There are now three consortiums vying for the PA's cloud: that of Cdp, Leonardo, Sogei and Tim, that of Almaviva and Aruba and the last of Fastweb and Engineering .

Now it is up to the government to decide the offer on which to activate a tender. Thereafter, the infrastructure will be managed by an economic operator selected through the launch of a public-private partnership.

"For now, with a very technical parliamentary amendment, a part of the majority seems to require clearer rules of engagement," Il Sole 24 Ore wrote last week.

"Two identical amendments presented to the Chamber to the decree on the implementation of the PNRR by Capitanio (Lega) and Di Maio and Del Barba (Italia viva) touch on the issue of the presence of Sogei, an in-house company of the Ministry of Economy, in the consortium that sees also Tim, CDP and Leonardo in the field ”, added the Confindustria newspaper.

In Article 7 of the Law Decree 6 November 2021, n. 152, containing urgent provisions for the implementation of the Pnrr, entitled "Provisions for the creation of the national strategic hub", we read in fact that "Sogei SpA is also authorized to provide cloud services in favor of the administrations for which it operates on the basis of in-house credit lines and by ACN (National Cybersecurity Agency), as well as by other central administrations that already use these services (paragraph 5). "

With the amendments, Marco Di Maio, Del Barba and Capitanio ask for the abolition of the rule.

Their goal – according to Start's reconstruction – would be to return to the old formulation of the 2020 simplification decree, which provided that the critical data of the central PAs could migrate, alternatively, to the newly created Psn infrastructure or to the infrastructure already developed by Sogei (as well as to the certified public cloud).

That formulation would in fact lead to a double role of Sogei – 100% controlled by the Ministry of Economy – in the Psn (on the one hand partner of the new Psn infrastructure with Tim and Leonardo, on the other supplier of the alternative infrastructure).

By doing so, the legislation that would result from the approval of the amendment would lend itself to appeals by the other two consortiums against the Government's decision to award the PSN tender, as they could dispute that the Tim-Sogei-Leonardo consortium has an advantage. competitive during the tender deriving from the fact that Sogei, a public entity, is already "accredited" as a cloud provider for central PAs through its own infrastructure.

"In discussions with the government, some operators have advanced the thesis that it is more appropriate to go to a" dual object "tender, that is, considering only the technical and economic aspects, regardless of the team that presents it: the most suitable consortium would be joined by Sogei only at a later time. Evaluations that at the moment would not have found the executive's ok yet ”, added Il Sole 24 Ore .

Difficult to pass the amendment, according to some insiders. But the story shows – notes an observer – how the war of appeals is in fact being prepared.

In the meantime, CDP was already holding talks for the CEO of the new company but had to stop everything, also due to the stalemate in Tim's governance after the torpedoing of Luigi Gubitosi.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/cloud-pa-chi-strattona-sogei/ on Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:00:48 +0000.