Fastweb and Aruba play the trick on Tim, Leonardo and Cdp on the national Cloud
Fastweb and Aruba surprisingly beat the Tim-Cdp-Leonardo-Sogei consortium in the competition for the national strategic hub, the so-called Cloud of the Public Administration. The consortium led by Tim still has the right of first refusal, that's why. Facts, numbers, insights and scenarios. With the role of the US giants
Fastweb, Aruba and Amazon play the trick on Tim, Leonardo, Cdp and Sogei on the national Cloud. That's how.
THE RACE FOR THE NATIONAL CLOUD, THE PROVISIONAL VICTORY OF ARUBA AND FASTWEB
The European tender for the construction and management of the National Strategic Pole was provisionally awarded yesterday (as required by the call for tenders), according to the provisions of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and defined in the Cloud Italy Strategy, i.e. '' infrastructure to manage the PA's most critical data in cloud mode financed by the PNRR. The project on which the tender was based, with an auction base of € 4.4 billion, was approved by the Department for Digital Transformation in December 2021.
THE DISCOUNT OF FASTWEB AND ARUBA
Between the two proposals received, the award went to the offer presented by the grouping consisting of Aruba and Fastweb (controlled by the Swiss group Swisscom) as agent, which offered, for the economic part, an average discount on the price lists placed at tender basis of 39.19%.
THE US COLOSSUS ON THE FIELD AND OPPOSED
The currently winning economic proposal is based on cloud technologies of the US giants Amazon and Microsoft Azure. While the consortium Tim indicated Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud as suppliers.
THE OFFERS
The economic operator promoter of the project, a grouping consisting of Sogei, Leonardo, Cdp Equity and Tim, as agent, for the economic part offered an average discount percentage, on the price lists based on tender, of 23.36% .
TIM'S NEXT STEPS
The promoter (Tim), other than the current successful bidder (Fastweb), now has fifteen days to exercise, if necessary, the right of first refusal by undertaking to fulfill the contractual obligations under the same conditions offered by the current successful bidder.
THE PROCEDURE
The procedure was carried out by Difesa Servizi, an in-house company of the Ministry of Defense, as a central purchasing body and with the collaborative supervision of the National Anti-Corruption Authority (Anac). The National Strategic Pole.
THE POSITION OF THE GOVERNMENT
Defense Services and Government, in fact, “take note of the change of scenario compared to the first phase of the tender, when it was the grouping of companies made up of Tim, Sogei, Leonardo and Cdp Equity that had won it. A national consortium, complete with public entities, which has seen itself fought on the side of the economic offer and which will now have 15 days to replicate the Aruba and Fastweb proposal ”, noted the Corriere della Sera .
THE COMMENT OF THE SUN 24 HOURS
"To exercise the right of first refusal now Tim and the state subsidiaries involved in the consortium – commented Il Sole 24 ore – must jump through hoops, undertaking to fulfill the contractual obligations under the same very challenging conditions offered by the current successful bidder".
THE MECHANISMS
The tender mechanism prepared by Difesa Servizi (company of the Ministry of Defense) and by the ministry led by Vittorio Colao provides, moreover, for the grouping led by Tim as agent the right to equalize "the conditions offered by the current contractor" .
THE DISTANCE OF THE TWO PROPOSALS AND THE DISCOUNT OF FASTWEB AND ARUBA
The distance between the two proposals is 700 million euros. The Fastweb-Aruba tandem has applied to create the national cloud, where 75% of Italian administrations will have to migrate by 2026, for an amount equal to 2.67 billion euros (against an auction base of 4, 4 billion), while the consortium made up of Tim, Sogei, Leonardo and Cdp Equity requested 3.37 billion for the same type of commitment.
THE ANALYSIS OF THE CORRIERE DELLA SERA
However, the provisional outcome is the natural result of a two-step process of identifying the most suitable supplier for a strategic match such as the cloud. The first stage, characterized by the elaboration of the best technical solution, to be used as a starting point for elaborating the second part of the tender with the economic offer. All with the aim of obtaining, through close competition, the best conditions both in terms of technology and in terms of savings for the public coffers, added Corriere della sera .
TIM'S TIMING AND PRELACTION RIGHT
In the fifteen days before the provisional award, the Cdp-Tim-Leonardo consortium will therefore have the opportunity to exercise – as Startmag explained in recent days – the so-called "right to match": this is how the law on PPP provides, given the department for Digital Transformation had in fact built the tender on the basis of the "private initiative project finance proposal presented by the same team in recent months and selected, last December 27, by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Department for Digital Transformation (decree no. 47/2021-PNRR), as the reference proposal for the launch of the tender, having been assessed as fully meeting the needs expressed in the Cloud Italy Strategy ".
THE DEEPENING
The award of the National Strategic Pole realizes the mission of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Mission 1, component 1, investment 1.1 Cloud PA / National Strategic Pole) to accelerate the digital transformation of the PA and has the objective, together with the initiative 1.2 of the PNRR 'Enabling and facilitating migration to the cloud', to bring 75% of Italian administrations to use cloud services by 2026. All central administrations, local health companies and the main local administrations will in fact be able to draw on the foreseen economic resources from Mission 1.2 of the PNRR to migrate data and services to the National Strategic Pole.
The creation of the PSN is one of the three fundamental objectives envisaged by the Italy Cloud Strategy, together with the classification of data and public services by the National Cybersecurity Agency and the migration of public administration digital data and services to the cloud.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/fastweb-aruba-e-amazon-fanno-lo-scherzetto-a-tim-leonardo-cdp-e-sogei-sul-cloud-nazionale/ on Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:39:23 +0000.