MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) has invited the bid documents from the prospective Cloud Service Providers with reference to the RFP for “Provisional Empanelment of Cloud Service Offerings of Cloud Service providers (CSPs)” dated 30th December 2015
The RFP may be accessed using the below mentioned link:
The envisaged implementation model is depicted in the below figure:
The empanelment of the Cloud service offerings of CSPs has been done for a combination of the Cloud Deployment models and Service offerings as mentioned below:
Deployment model
- Public Cloud
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Government Community Cloud (GCC)
Service Offerings
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
- Dev / Test Environment as a Service (DevOps)
- Virtual Desktops as a Service (VDaaS)
In order to utilize and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India embarked upon an ambitious initiative – “GI Cloud” which has been coined as ‘Meghraj’. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending of the Government.
The architectural vision of GI Cloud as mentioned above consists of a set of discrete cloud computing environments spread across multiple locations, built on existing or new (augmented) infrastructure, following a set of common protocols, guidelines and standards issued by the Government of India. In this regard, the Cloud Strategic Direction Paper and Implementation roadmap, which was published in June 2013, can be accessed using the below mentioned link:
The first National Cloud implemented by NIC was launched in February’ 2014 where a large number of government departments are already using cloud services, which may be accessed using the below mentioned link:
The e-Gov Appstore under GI Cloud was launched in May 2013. The same can be accessed using the below mentioned link:
Open Empanelment of Cloud Service Providers (CSP
