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Call for Tenders for the selection of Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory Consortia and the establishment of AI Gigafactories

Luxembourg · Luxembourg · how to bid here →

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 3 December at 17:00 — 61 days left.
  2. The submission point is stated in the notice (link on the right).
  3. Offer and evidence in: BUL, CES, DAN, DEU, ELL, ENG, SPA, EST, FIN, FRA, GLE, HRV, HUN, ITA, LIT, LAV, MLT, NLD, POL, POR, RON, SLK, SLV, SWE, BUL, CES, DAN, DEU, ELL, ENG, SPA, EST, FIN, FRA, GLE, HRV, HUN, ITA, LIT, LAV, MLT, NLD, POL, POR, RON, SLK, SLV, SWE.
  4. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed above; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • 87% of awards went to companies from abroad (23 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 36%.n = 23
  • The median procedure drew 2 bids (23 procedures with a bid count); 30% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 8 bids.n = 23
  • 14% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (23 awards since 2024, spread over 18 companies). That is well below the sector norm (29%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 23 awards since 2024

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 27/09/2026.

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References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.

Foreign bidders

In Luxembourg · IT services, 162 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 541 recorded awards) — mostly from Belgium, France, Germany.

Submission language: BUL.

Typical field: median 8 (from 407 awards).

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

What the buyer is looking for

The overall objective of this Call is the selection of Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory (AIGF) Consortia, which will establish and operate the AIGFs and from which the Contracting Parties will acquire AI compute access time. More in detail, the specific objectives of this Call are as follows: - Selection of AIGF Consortia: Following a rigorous evaluation of the tenders by the EuroHPC JU with the support of independent experts, the Governing Board will make an award decision, establishing a ranked list of successful AIGF Consortia. - Procurement of Compute Access Time: To establish a framework for the joint acquisition of a guaranteed share of AI compute access time from the selected AIGF Consortia, formalised through the signature of a Framework Contract and a number of subsequent Specific Contracts with the successful AIGF Consortia. AIGF refers to state-of-the-art large-scale…

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… facility with sufficient capacity to handle the complete lifecycle, from development to large-scale inference, of very large AI models and applications, providing a supercomputing service infrastructure which is composed of AI-optimised computing capacity, a supporting data centre infrastructure including high-capacity storage and networking, dedicated secure cloud user access environments, and specialised secure AI-oriented support services for its advanced operations, all of which are supported by an environmentally sustainable infrastructure, in particular for energy and water supply systems.

Machine translation (EU eTranslation) — official wording via the PDF link.

Selection criteria — in the procurement documents

The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on the right), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish.

Contract

BuyerEuropean High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
TypeServices
Estimated value100.000.000 €
Published1 October 2026
CategoryIT services · CPV 72500000

Who has won here before

CompanyAwardsPeriod
IQM Finland Oy · Espoo22024
MTEL ~ A1 BULGARIA EAD22024
BULL SAS22025
FSAS TECHNOLOGIES SL12025
GEANT Vereniging12025
From 18.0M documented awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this

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Who knows the rhythm prepares instead of reacting.

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days until the deadline — Thursday 3 December at 17:00

How to bid

Read the full notice — Original + documents
Goes directly to this tender on TED — Tenders Electronic Daily. The full specification and all annexes are there.

Tender documents — direct download

Specifications and annexes hosted by the buyer — usually accessible without registration.
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