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Commission awards €180 million tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers
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This April, the European Commission awarded its Sovereign Cloud call for tender through which the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (Union entities) can procure sovereign cloud services for up to EUR 180 million over a period of 6 years.
The awarded providers are:
- A Luxembourgish-French partnership led by Post Telecom with OVHCloud and CleverCloud
- The German company STACKIT (Schwarz Group)
- The French company Scaleway (Iliad Group)
- A Belgian-French-Luxembourgish partnership led by Proximus, that uses services from S3NS (a joint venture between Thales and Google Cloud), Clarence and Mistral
The awarded providers were selected based on their alignment with the Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework, which measures sovereignty across eight objectives.
These include strategic, legal, operational, and environmental considerations, as well as supply chain transparency, technological openness, security, and compliance with EU laws. The Commission awarded four contracts in parallel to ensure diversification and resilience, avoiding over-reliance on a single provider.
To be eligible, the providers had to reach rigorous assurance levels ensuring that non-EU third parties have limited control over the technologies the providers use, or services they provide.
More:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_833
https://commission.europa.eu/document/09579818-64a6-4dd5-9577-446ab6219113_en
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