The EOSC Procurement Action 2026 – as foreseen in the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures Work Programme 2026-2027 “Managed services for the EOSC Platform (EOSC EU Node)” – is to takeover and ensure the incremental improvement and continuous operation, maintenance and support of the integrated suite of managed services that constitute the EOSC EU Node platform in production, as a service owned by the European Commission.
It is designed as a 4-year framework within which the Commission can call-off the necessary managed services and development work to best serve the evolving EOSC Federation, its operational nodes, end-users and other stakeholders.
The resulting infrastructure must be robust, secure, scalable, flexible and user centric. It is constantly improved and upgraded following user feedback and the state-of-the-art of the underlying core technologies. It offers high quality of service management compliant with industrial standards, providing for a superior user experience, usability and ease of use for a very large number of users (i.e. hundreds of parallel user sessions per day), with the functionalities available 24/7. It offers seamless access to data, software and services through customized user interfaces, allowing users to navigate with built-in guidance tools and analytics for (re)use and service composition. It builds on the key concept of federation, standards and processes for Open Science, such as the EOSC Interoperability Framework and FAIR-by-design data and services.
Expected results are as follows:
- Continuously operational, secure cloud-based EOSC infrastructure (EOSC EU Node platform) offering high quality professional services available 24/7.
- Rich set of innovative, modular, customizable and composable services for a wide variety of users from the research communities and beyond.
- A large number of data and service communities aligned in terms of standards and consolidated at subdomain, domain and interdisciplinary levels.
- Established links with other Common European Data Spaces via Simpl (Smart Middleware Platform) and with the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP).
- Increased discovery and reuse of European research output as a result of FAIR data and services provided through EOSC, and cross-fertilization and a wider sharing of knowledge and technologies.
Who can participate?
This EOSC public procurement tender is an opportunity for all economic operators, both industry and scientific research community, to offer fully managed services for the continuous improvement, operations, maintenance and support of the EOSC EU Node platform in production, owned by the Commissions and made available to public.
Access all the details of this tender on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal