Psn: Tim, Leonardo, Cdp and Sogei overtake the Fastweb-Aruba tandem for the national Cloud
The consortium made up of Tim, Leonardo Cdp and Sogei exercised the right of pre-emption as part of the tender for the Psn. The team offered the same conditions as the Fastweb-Aruba duo, provisional winner
The consortium made up of Tim, Leonardo, Cdp and Sogei defeats the Aruba-Fasweb tandem in the tender for the National Strategic Pole (Psn) which involves the construction of the cloud for the public administration.
In fact, the quartet exercised the right of pre-emption in the European tender for the assignment of the implementation and management of the PSN launched last January by Difesa Servizi Spa , the central commissioning department of the Department for Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. .
This is stated in a note specifying that the four groups operating as "promoter" have undertaken to "fulfill their contractual obligations under the same conditions offered by the current provisional contractor". As envisaged by the public-private partnership, on which the public procedure for the award of the Psn is set up
The move is a relaunch with respect to the award of the tender to the rival duo Fastweb-Aruba which had obtained the assignment with a discount on the offer presented by the consortium led by Tim.
"It should now go to a quick final award by the contracting authority, the public company Difesa Servizi Spa, which should be followed by an authorization under the" golden power ", the establishment of the Newco with Tim in the majority at 45% and the signature of the agreement (presumably by the summer) ”, underlines Il Sole 24 Ore .
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FASTWEB AND ARUBA OFFER DRAWN (WITH DISCOUNT)
Between the two proposals received, the award went on June 22 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, 2.8 billion or an average discount on the price lists based on tender of 39.19%. About 700 million less than the consortium led by Tim.
The economic operator promoting the project, a group consisting of Sogei, Leonardo, Cdp Equity and Tim, as agent, for the economic part had in fact offered an average discount percentage, on the price lists based on tender, of 23.36 %.
So the quartet made up of Tim, Leonardo, Cdp (through the subsidiary Cdp Equity) and Sogei had fifteen days to exercise the right of first refusal. And yesterday he matched the offer.
CLOUD PROVIDERS
Tim's economic proposal is based on cloud technologies of the US giants Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. According to Il Sole 24 Ore , the consortium reserves the right to possibly choose a fourth. As proposed by the competitors Fastweb and Aruba who in addition to the three suppliers mentioned had also included Amazon Web Services, leader in the cloud market.
THE PSN PROJECT
The Psn project involves the construction and management of an infrastructure for the provision of cloud solutions and services for the Public Administration, with the aim of ensuring "the highest possible level of data efficiency, security and reliability", is explained .
The project on which the tender was based, with a starting price of € 4.4 billion, was approved by the Department for Digital Transformation in December 2021. The budget provided by the State is € 900 million from the NRP. to directly support PAs in the initial phase of data migration to cloud mode.
The initiative is part of the overall plan to accelerate the country's digital transformation to “provide innovative services to citizens and businesses, as envisaged by the NRP and by regulatory interventions on digital infrastructures.
THE COMMENT OF THE SUN 24 HOURS
"It will now be necessary to understand if the outcome will lead to a possible dispute, inconvenient for the government that has entered the National Strategic Pole (PSN), the infrastructure to manage the critical data of the PA in the cloud, at the center of the chapter on digital of the Pnrr. An appeal by the defeated consortium could, at least on paper, have repercussions on the objective set in the NRP to make the PSN operational as early as the end of 2022 ”concluded Il Sole 24 Ore .
THE GOVERNANCE NODE
Finally, Fastweb and Aruba had also offered the possibility for the State – in the event of a final award – to choose an institutional partner to be included in the team. So as to ensure that the National Strategic Pole (Psn) is subject to public supervision, as desired by the diktat of the Chamber.
Therefore the Tim-Leonardo-Sogei-Cdp consortium will also have to fulfill this front. Although it should be remembered that the consortium led by Tim already has three partners controlled or participated by the Mef.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/psn-tim-leonardo-cdp-e-sogei-cloud-nazionale/ on Fri, 08 Jul 2022 10:49:39 +0000.