On June 9, the current cloud services purchase agreement for state entities is expired. Through this contract, Nearly 195 public entities have been able to operate digitally safely and continuously.
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With its ending and closer, What will happen to the services?
The first thing to know is that, since 2024, the National Public Procurement Agency, Colombia buys efficient, has been working on the structuring of a public cloud demand mechanism. This in order to open the doors so that different national and foreign companies have the opportunity to provide service to state entities.
The continuity of this operation is essential for the provision of critical services such as Education, health, justice, childhood protection and even national security.
The idea with this measure, Colombia explained efficient in a statement, is that the provision of the cloud does not concentrate only on four companies, which in the last four years have billed More than $ 925,000 million For this concept. That is, it seeks to expand the number of bidders.
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The structuring of the new framework agreement and the eventual contractual process of this mechanism are in charge of The entity’s business subdirection And the director Cristóbal Padilla, in the company of the Ministry of ICT.
In the context of that process, Padilla explained that “It is not true that state entities are going to be without a cloud. We have the possibility of extending the agreement until the structuring of the new is not achieved and the four operators were already located the extension request of an additional three months while we finish the structuring and selection of the new framework agreement.”
The agency also reported that the digital services of the State will not be affected and that once the call of the selection process is published, State entities and suppliers will have the possibility to observe the requirements To be able to participate in the new instrument.
It should be remembered that in mid -February this year, Colombia Purchase Efficient extended the current agreement for three monthssince this was about to win in March.
It is also important to note that some actors in the technological sector have expressed their concerns regarding the process, not only because this would be in a hurried way, but because the new conditions could reduce the technical requirements.
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