Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2024-01-19
Buyer: Autoritatea pentru Digitalizarea României (Authority for Digitalisation of Romania)
Country: RO
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 180000000 EUR
EU fund: Recovery and Resilience

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Market Public Consultation - Cloud Application Migration Services (IaaS/PaaS) for the Governmental Cloud of Romania
The Governmental Cloud is financed from Romania’s NRRP with a target that at least 30 IT applications and systems belonging to various public institutions and authorities are migrated to the new cloud environment by June 2026. More information can be found at the official link https://www.adr.gov.ro/cloud/. ADR benefits from an overall budget of approximately 180 MIL EUR. ADR anticipates that it will launch several public procurement procedures during 2024 to procure cloud migration services, and it contemplates the possibility of bundling / aggregating several IT applications and systems to migrate to the new Governmental Cloud into fewer cloud migration public procurement contracts. ADR would like to assess the market’s capabilities to meet the implementation needs of the described project with the objective of better planning and designing the future public procurement procedures (including the estimation of associated costs) via which it will purchase cloud migration services.
Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) supports the digital transition with investments and reforms for the digitalisation of public administration in crucial areas such as justice, employment and social protection, environment, civil service management and skills development, public procurement, cybersecurity, tax, and customs while building a secure Government Cloud infrastructure and supporting Electronic ID (eID) deployment.
As indicated already, within NRRP, the Authority for Digitalisation of Romania is tasked with migrating at least 30 IT applications and systems to the secure Government Cloud infrastructure in two waves: 1) by Q2, 2025 – at least 5 IT applications and systems, (2) by Q2, 2026 – other IT applications and systems up to a cumulated number of 30 IT applications and systems migrated by close of second wave. The IT applications and systems belong to various Romanian public institutions and authorities, but ADR is responsible for ensuring their migration from the budget available under NRRP.
The list of IT applications and systems providing public services, selected and prioritised for migration to the Government Cloud under Investment 2 of NRRP, is in the process of being finalised.
ADR envisages three strategies for migrating applications to the cloud (IaaS/PaaS): rehost (lift and shift), reorganisation (revision) of the platform (re-platform/revise) and redesign (rearchitect).
Changes in the IT applications/ systems that will be made from a migration perspective will also cover issues related to cybersecurity, interoperability and web accessibility.
ADR plans to run during 2024 several public procurement procedures for contracting the services in view of migrating the 30 IT applications and systems to the new Governmental Cloud. For clarity, this notice concerns the entire scope of these future public procurement procedures.
Relevant market operators are invited to register to vendor information sessions by January 23rd, 2024, 12 o’clock, Romanian time and submit in responses to a questionnaire by February 4th, 2024, 23:59 (Romanian time). Please visit sources mentioned under section II.2.14) Additional information for details on the market consultation process.
1)	ADR will organise 2 market information sessions  on the 25th of January 2024 and on the 26th of January 2024 during which it will present more information on the process of migration of IT applications and systems in the Governmental Cloud. Deadline to apply for meeting: 23rd of January 2024, 12.00 (Romanian time)
2)	Economic operators shall fill a questionnaire and send it to the ADR.  Deadline : 4th of February 2024
3)	After analysing the questionnaires received, the ADR may choose to organize bilateral consultation meetings (individual meetings) with certain economic operators participating in the market consultation process. Period: 26 February – 08 March 2024
The prior information notice shall be used solely to ensure advertising for market public consultation (for information only). It shall not constitute a notice of intent by which the Contracting Authority makes known its intentions regarding planned purchases within the meaning of article 143 of Romanian Law no. 98/2016 on public procurement, with subsequent modifications and additions
The full market consultation documentation is available both in English and Romanian with the posting on the website of Authority for Digitalisation of Romanian (ADR) at the following address: https://www.adr.gov.ro/, in the „News” („Noutăți”) section  as well as on the Romanian public procurement platform, SEAP www.e-licitatie.ro, under public consultation announcement no. MC1027337 /15.01.2024.


Award value: 180000000