BRUSSELS—The European Commission’s DG Connect revealed on Friday the winners of the public procurement tender titled “Managed Services for the European Open Science Cloud Platform (EOSC)” (Ref. CNECT/LUX/2022/CD/0023), published under the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures Work Programme 2022.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) procurement is to build and deploy a fully operational enabling infrastructure for EOSC – referred to as “the EOSC EU Node” – providing access to a rich portfolio of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data and professional quality interoperable services in all relevant domains from data handling to computing, processing, analysis and storing.
EOSC Procurement’s Award Notice in TED
The public tender was organized in three lots:
Next step
The European Commission and the awarded contractors are going to hold their joint kick-off meeting for the managed services deployment and delivery phase in the coming three weeks.
The operational services of the EOSC EU Node are expected to be launched in production gradually starting from January until July 2024.
Background
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) aims to achieve a federation of infrastructures providing seamless access to interoperable research objects and value-added services for the whole research data cycle, from discovery to storage, management, analysis, and reuse. The EOSC Procurement is to build and deploy an operational, secure, cloud-based EOSC EU Node, that includes both the core and exchange service components, offering high quality managed services and superior user experience for a large number of users, with the functionalities available 24/7. The procurement also covers operations, maintenance, and support of the EOSC EU Node for 36 months.
SOURCE: European Commission
