Status of MeitY empanelled and STQC audited CSPs :

* The end user Departments are advised to procure the cloud services from the empaneled and audit compliant CSPs only (highlighted in green colour)..

• Guidelines for Procurement of Cloud Services
  This document provides the guidelines to Government Departments for procuring Cloud Services from the Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Systems Integrator (SI). The document will also highlight the key responsibilities of the Government Departments and the empaneled Cloud CSPs, MSPs and SIs during the Procurement of Cloud Services.
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• Guidelines on Master Service Agreement for procuring Cloud Services
  This document provides a Master Service Agreement (MSA) that a Government Department can enter into with the Cloud Service Provider / Managed Service Provider to take care of the risks and challenges associated with the procurement and consumption of the third party Cloud Services. The Government Department may incorporate additional provisions, clauses, and terms & conditions in this MSA to meet its Project specific requirements.
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• Guidelines for User Departments on Service Level Agreement (SLA) for procuring Cloud services
  This document will assist the Government Departments in incorporating relevant Service Level Agreement in their contractual arrangements with the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)/Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to take care of the risks and challenges associated with the procurement and consumption of third party Cloud services.
  Click here for Guidelines for User Departments on Service Level Agreement (SLA) for procuring Cloud services
• Bouquet of Cloud Services
  The Cloud services, listed under this section, have been categorized into “Basic Cloud Services” and “Advanced Cloud Services”. The Cloud services listed under the “Basic Cloud Services” are mandatory for all CSPs to offer to the Government Organizations under at least one of the empaneled Cloud Deployment Models. However, the Cloud services listed under the “Advanced Cloud Services” category are optional for the CSPs to offer. (Click here for Bouquet of Cloud Services)
• Additional Requirements for extending the empanelment of Cloud Service Offerings of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)
  These are the additional empanelment requirements for the existing Cloud Service Providers empanelled by MeitY in 2016 and 2018. (Click here for Additional requirements for existing empanelled Cloud Service Providers).

• RFP for selection of agency for Cloud Management office (CMO)
• Corrigendum and Clarification for RFP for selection of agency for Cloud Management office (CMO)
  • Corrigendum for RFP for selection of agency for Cloud Management office (CMO).
  • Clarification for RFP for selection of agency for Cloud Management office (CMO).

• Click here for "Advertisement for Empanelment of Cloud Service Offerings of CSPs
• Click here for " Invitation for Application/Proposal for Empanelment of Cloud Service Offerings of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)

The objective of empanelment of Cloud Audit Organization is to empanel third party audit organizations/ auditors who are competent to assess Cloud Service Provider for compliance as per defined requirements and criteria. (Click here for details)

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:

• Click here for RFP for Provisional Empanelment of Cloud Service Offerings of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) incorporating all Corrigendum

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)

• Setting up of State and National Clouds
• Set up an e-Gov Appstore
• Empanelment of Cloud Service Providers
• Empanelment of Cloud Auditors
• Setting up of Cloud Management Office
  • Setting up an eco-system for Cloud proliferation (Policies, Guidelines, templates, security norms, certification, business models for applications, tariff & revenue models for private sector Cloud services)
  • Awareness workshops, training programs and migration support for cloud adoption by departments
• MeghRaj (GI-Cloud) service Directory
• Setting up of Clouds by other Government entities

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:

• Click here for GI Cloud Strategic Direction Paper
• Click here for GI Cloud Adoption and Implementation Roadmap

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:

• https://cloud.gov.in/

The e-Gov Appstore under GI Cloud was launched in May 2013. The same can be accessed using the below mentioned link:

• http://apps.gov.in