Preliminary assessment of the second payment request of Romania

of Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation, submitted on 13 February 2023. Analysis: The justification and substantiating evidence provided by the Romanian authorities cover all constitutive elements of the milestone. Signature of the contract for the implementation of government cloud infrastructure. The contract for the implementation of the government cloud infrastructure was signed on 30 June 2022, with contract number 3131/30.06.2022. The institutions responsible for the call for tender and the implementation of this investment are the Special Telecommunication Services and the Authority for the Digitization of Romania. The financing contract signed between the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation, on the one side, and the Authority for the Digitization of Romania, Special Telecommunication Services, and Romanian Intelligence Service, on the other side, as well as the Partnership Agreement and the

financing application annexed to the contract show that the procurement for the development of the Government cloud that includes the call for tender and implementation of the investment is to be carried out by the three partners in the project: the Authority for the Digitization of Romania, Special Telecommunication Services and Romanian Intelligence Service. This demonstrates that the institutions responsible for the implementation of the investment are the STS and ADR, as required by the CID. The implementation of the Government Cloud shall involve at least the following stages:

• - construction of Tier IV by design data centres for the two main centres and Tier III by

design for the secondary ones; Point 1.3 of the 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 states that four data centres will be set up, which implies its design and construction: two primary data centres in Bucharest and Timisoara (Tier IV) and two secondary data centres in Brasov and Sibiu (Tier III). The implementation of the two secondary data centres, interoperable with the two primary data centres, is necessary to ensure the technical and legal requirements for business continuity / disaster recovery.

• - providing specific communications infrastructure and information technology (optic fibre

cables and high-capacity communications equipment); Chapter 3.1.5 of the technical project on communication resources, 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 October 2022 specifies the communication infrastructure and information technology to be provided, including optic fibre cables and high- capacity communications equipment.

• - development / expansion of the electricity supply network for each data centre in order

to ensure redundancy and electricity demand; Chapter 3.1.1. of the technical project stipulates that energy-efficient systems based on electricity produced by photovoltaic panels will be used to secure part of the power supply of data centres. To ensure redundancy and sufficient electricity demand, each data centre will have dedicated spaces for the power supply infrastructure and will be partitioned to form two completely separate power

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