National strategic pole, because the Italia Cloud Consortium is out of sight
Who participates (and who does not participate) in the procedure for assigning the public-private partnership for the Cloud Pa
The race to win the public-private partnership for the creation of the National Strategic Pole is livened up. That is the infrastructure for the cloud management of data and applications of the Public Administration.
After the proposals presented by the Cdp consortium, Leonardo, Sogei and Tim (a Newco with Tim at 45% and the remaining front at 55%) and by the tandem Almaviva and Aruba and the announcement of Maximo Ibarra, the new CEO of Engineering , another person slips out of the race instead.
This is the Italia Cloud Consortium (Seeweb, Netalia, Sourcesense, Infordata, Babyloncloud, Eht) which at the beginning of August had presented its expression of interest in the project .
On 2 October, the Italia Cloud Consortium announced that it will not present any proposal for a Public Private Partnership not recognizing itself in the model indicated. However, the consortium chaired by Michele Zunino makes it known that it will be waiting to hear the Government's decisions on the allocation procedures for the national Cloud.
We recall that between the National Strategic Pole and the migration of the entire PA to the cloud, the government has allocated 1.9 billion euros under the Pnrr.
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THE ITALIAN CLOUD CONSORTIUM IS PULLED BACK
The Italia Cloud Consortium (Cic) will not present a proposal, reads a note, "not recognizing itself in the model indicated and waiting to know the government's decisions on the assignment procedures".
Furthermore, the CIC "expresses its propensity towards a federated Cloud infrastructure that enhances Italian companies and public sector companies, independent of the person called to manage them, attentive to the principle of" digital sovereignty "which must remain an essential qualification element, as takes place primarily in other European countries ".
"The PSN is an important component of the country's digital infrastructure but remains far from a Cloud model that has the necessary characteristics of flexibility, scalability and reliability that a modern digital infrastructure must guarantee, together with the indispensable measures to protect PA data from interference by companies or foreign countries ”, adds the note.
WAITING TO KNOW THE GOVERNMENT'S DETERMINATIONS
"The Italia Cloud Consortium remains strongly interested in the choices that will characterize" ordinary data and services "and" critical data and services ", as identified by the document" Italy Cloud Strategy ", continues the note," trusting that it will be possible to define an modern and advanced able to enhance the investments in physical infrastructures already present in many areas of the country made by Italian companies and public bodies, which are already performing this task in full reliability and safety ".
The Consorzio Italia Cloud – concludes the note – “is ready to guarantee its contribution with the will to positively affirm the founding elements of its model which is and will be inclusive. Therefore, he hopes that the opportunity represented by the creation of the NPP will constitute a similar opportunity for the growth and competitiveness of the many companies operating in the country in the field of cloud computing, the network and information technology in general; only in this way can the path undertaken with far-sightedness by the Minister be defined as completed ”.
THE PROPOSAL OF ALMAVIVA AND ARUBA
Meanwhile, Italian IT group AlmavivA and cloud service provider Aruba said on Saturday that they had submitted a joint proposal to the government to help build a cloud-based infrastructure for PA data.
The proposal – presented in the public-private partnership (PPP) regime – defines a project for the construction and management of the Cloud infrastructure, on which to host data and services from the Public Administration, data and times defined by the Pnrr, with the highest guarantees of reliability, reliability and independence as part of the PA's digital transformation plan, aimed at certifying quality and reliability in the provision of digital services to citizens and businesses, recognizing the Mitd, or the public entity designated by the same, the right to acquire a stake, also by majority, in the share capital of the Project Company which will be constituted by the proposers in the event of the award of the contract
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF IBARRA, NEW CEO OF ENGINEERING
In addition, another company is also preparing to submit a proposal to Mitd in the coming days.
This is the Italian software development company Engineering, as Maximo Ibarra, the company's new CEO, announced to the newspaper Corriere della Sera , in comments later confirmed by a spokesperson.
Ibarra told the newspaper that the engineering firm, owned by Bain Capital and NB Renaissance, will lead a "consortium with an original approach", adding that his company could benefit from its previous experience in digitizing the Italian public administration system.
THE INCOGNITE ABOUT PUBLIC COMPANIES
"But there is a significant unknown hanging on the alternative consortiums to that of Tim, Cdp Equity, Leonardo and Sogei" underlines Gianluca Zappa on Start . “Which public companies will be part of the consortia competing with the one that sees giants in the sector with control or with state participation such as Cdp, Leonardo and Sogei? Not a strange question ". "There is a certain preference for keeping control by the state, perhaps in a flexible form", said in recent weeks the minister of innovation and digital transition, Vittorio Colao, during the press conference for the presentation of the national strategy. of the cloud.
The press indiscretions of recent weeks regarding the moral suasion conducted by the Mef to induce Poligrafico and Fincantieri to withdraw from the tender for the National Strategic Pole of the Pa cloud are therefore increasingly confirmed.
"The other two consortiums, Fincantieri-Amazon and Poligrafico-Fastweb could be wrecked because it is rumored that the Mef is trying to discourage other public companies from competing with the squadron in which Cdp, Tim, Sogei and Leonardo are active" had reported Repubblica .
It seems that the only consortium to be taken into consideration by the government is that of Tim and Cdp with Leonardo and Sogei. (Here the in-depth analysis by Start on how the Mef torpedoes Fincantieri and Poligrafico on the Cloud for the PA).
“The consortium's proposal should be made public to allow other interested parties to make better offers by the end of the year, with the first bidder having to consider whether to match them to win the job, if so. In any case, only Italian or European players could participate in the competition ”Il Sole 24 Ore stressed.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/polo-strategico-nazionale-perche-il-consorzio-italia-cloud-si-defila/ on Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:22:52 +0000.