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Nimbus Tender

Project Nimbus is a multi-year, large-scale flagship project led by the Government Procurement Administration in the Accountant General division at the Ministry of Finance, in collaboration with the Israel National Digital Agency (INCD), the Legal department at the Ministry of Finance, Israel National Cyber Directorate, the Budget Division at the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Defense, and the IDF.
 

The Nimbus project began at the start of 2019, and is intended to provide a comprehensive framework for the provision of public cloud services to the government. The project includes five central layers, which were constructed by examining the entire life cycle of these services:

  1. Provision of Public cloud services – AWS and Google were chosen to provide public cloud services to the Government of Israel For further information, see Central Tender Notice 16.2.2.1:
    https://takam.mof.gov.il/document/HM.16.2.2.
     
  2. Development of Government cloud policy – Developing a government cloud policy, and establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) in the government. This process is being led by the INCD.
     
  3. Providing consultation, assistance, migration and integration services of cloud services – These services are provided within the framework of the central engagement for the supply of technology and digital services in outputs. For additional information, see Central Tender Notice 16.2.19:
    https://takam.mof.gov.il/document/HM.16.2.19.
     
  4. Monitoring, optimization and cloud FinOps – A central governmental policy was developed in the field of cloud FinOps. The policy documents may be viewed at the following link: https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/news/details/030420231646.
    Additional information and detailed work processes in the field may be viewed at the following link:
    https://takam.mof.gov.il/document/H.7.10.6.
     
  5. Enabling the procurement and use of third-party cloud services on the platforms of AWS and Google – the government cloud digital marketplace was established, and through which the ministries can procure and use third party services that are available in the marketplaces of Google and AWS. For additional information, see Central Tender Notice 16.2.2.2:
    https://takam.mof.gov.il/document/HM.16.2.2.


In addition, the Government Procurement Administration is actively working in additional areas, such as cybersecurity, CRM services, productivity and collaboration services and others, to promote the migration of the government to the cloud as part of Project Nimbus, and advance the government digital transformation efforts.