EU solidarity with Ukraine

Call for tenders' details

The deadline for submission of the tender is extended till 30/10/2020, 2:00 p.m. (CET). Please disregard the deadline to be found in the field "Time limit for receipt of tenders".
Title:
EUDOR — Long-term Digital Preservation Services
Contracting authority:
Publications Office of the European Union (OP)
TED publication date:
08/09/2020
Time limit for receipt of tenders:
30/10/2020
Status:
Closed
Status
21/09/2020
23/09/2020
English (en)
Question details
DP software
Why have you specified the system must be open source and therefore reduced the quality of the submissions by not considering mature and industry standard commercial offerings, which in many cases are more scalable and secure. Will commercial software not be considered?
23/09/2020
Open source requirement is in line with the EC Open source software strategy (see https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/informatics/open-source-software-strategy_en). The proposal must be based on open source.