HNSciCloud, a new pre-commercial procurement project co-funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme and ten public research organisations has just launched its Prior Information Notice!
The award decision for the first Call for Tender for Cloud Services (CLOUD I) was signed. The tender is the first decisive step for the European Commission towards the use of the Cloud for its own systems.
The Cloud will enable the Commission to follow the ceaseless pace of today's technological race among infrastructure providers where costs of storage, bandwidth and computing power are decreasing day by day while enabling at the same time innovative solutions for new challenges such as Big Data.
CERN has launched a market survey to establish a list of firms to be invited to submit bids for the supply of cloud resources for physics data processing.
The Cloud for Europe tender for the joint pre-commercial procurement of research and development on cloud computing services is now closed. The purpose of the tender is to research and demonstrate solutions to overcome obstacles for the adoption of cloud computing by the public sector. A total of 29 economic operators from 11 countries submitted their bids. A variety of economic operators are involved: 45% represent SMEs, 24% large companies and 31% public research bodies. Here is the list of successful bidders...
Pan-European research and education network Géant is on the hunt for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers who can offer its members secure access to the public cloud.
A total of 29 economic operators from 11 countries (Italy, Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom – with some representing multinational corporations) submitted bids to the Cloud for Europe PCP tender.
The amended Cloud for Europe tender documents are now published. The relevant notice is available on TED at: http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:63211-2015:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=0. The updated documents (release v.1.1 21.02.2015) can be downloaded from the tender website: http://www.agid.gov.it/cloudforeurope. Consequently, also the deadlines were extended. The new time limit for requests of clarification is 26 February 2015 at 23:59. The new time limit for the receipt of tenders is Monday, 16th of March at 10:30 CET
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