Preliminary assessment of the second payment request of Romania

regarding the provision of communications for emergency situations.

Commission Preliminary Assessment: Satisfactorily fulfilled

Number: 153       Related Measure: Deployment of the Government Cloud Infrastructure
Name of the Milestone: Signature of the contract to implement the investment based on the call
for tenders procedure to implement the investment
Qualitative Indicator: Signature of the contract                              Time: Q2 2022
Context:
Milestone #153 is part of investment C7.I1, whose objective is to deploy the government cloud
infrastructure, using secure and energy-efficient technologies to ensure the safe, interoperable and
standard character of the public data.
Milestone #153 concerns the signature of the contract for the implementation of government cloud
infrastructure based on the call for tenders procedure.
Milestone #153 is the first step for the achievement of the investment and it will be followed by
target #154 to connect 30 public institutions through the government cloud and target #155

concerning the operationalisation of two Tier III and two Tier IV data centres. The investment has a
final expected date for implementation in December 2025].
Evidence provided:
In line with the verification mechanism set out in the Operational Arrangements, the following
evidence was provided:
   i)   cover note justifying how the milestone and including all the constitutive elements was
        satisfactorily fulfilled.
  ii)   copy of the financing contract with contract number 3131/30.06.2022 from 30 June 2022
        signed by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation, the Authority for the
        Digitalisation of Romania, the Special Telecommunications Service and the Romanian
        Intelligence Service.
 iii)   Annex No. 1 to the financing contract: Application for financing with related annexes, from

        30 June 2022, drafted by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation.
 iv)    Technical project prepared by the Authority for the Digitalisation of Romania, the Special
        Telecommunications Service (STS), and Romanian Intelligence Service at the request of the
        Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation for government cloud infrastructure
        deployment dated 17.10.2022.
The authorities also provided:
  v)    Feasibility study, prepared by the Authority for the Digitalisation of Romania, the Special
        Telecommunications Service and Romanian Intelligence Service at the request of the
        Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation for government cloud infrastructure
        deployment submitted on 10 December 2022;
 vi)    Cloud guideline prepared by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation for
        government cloud infrastructure deployment submitted on 10 December 2022;

 vii)   Action plan for government cloud prepared by the Authority for the Digitalisation of
        Romania, the Special Telecommunications Service and Romanian Intelligence Service at the
        request of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation submitted on 29 June 2022;
viii)   Correspondence table showing compliance with European Code of Conduct on Data Centre
        Energy Efficiency, prepared by the Special Telecommunication Services (STS) at the request

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