Following the successful OCRE 2024 Tender and the start of the OCRE 2024 Framework, we are pleased to report that as of 4 August 2025 all the OCRE 2024 contract awards notices have been successfully published on the TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) Platform, the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union for European public procurement, in relation to the notice 260645-2024. All 39 award notices – one per country participating in OCRE 2024 – are now available in the TED Platform in the 24 official EU languages. The publication on TED marks the formal finalisation of the OCRE 2024 tender, ensuring transparency, accountability and legal compliance in this public procurement of pan-European scale. Read the...
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Since its launch earlier this year, the OCRE 2024 Framework – the third iteration of GÉANT’s flagship Cloud Frameworks – has been gaining momentum, registering increasing adoption from Research and Education institutions and public organisations all across Europe. A few months into the Framework’s rollout, 60 participants with a shared interest in advancing the interaction between the R&E community and commercial cloud providers gathered in Utrecht over the course of two days for an official launch event. Organised by the GÉANT (GN5-2) project Above-the-Net Services team and held at the NH Hotel Utrecht, the event brought together Cloud Service Delivery Managers (CSDMs) from European NRENs, GÉANT project members, and...
Following on a longstanding and successful collaboration, GÉANT and EUNIS (European University Information Systems) recently held an online workshop focused on the OCRE 2024 Framework and on the GÉANT Community Strategy for Above-the-Net Services. This regular series of joint events brings together experts and users from NRENs and institutions to share knowledge and resources. Under the Hood of OCRE 2024 The first part of the workshop featured presentations from Monique Pellinkhof (GÉANT) and Garvan McFeeley (HEAnet), the GÉANT project leads overseeing the preparation, execution and delivery of the OCRE 2024 tender, as well as the management of OCRE 2024 contracts. Their presentations covered the Framework’s background, from the initial...
3 February 2025. GÉANT is delighted to announce that the OCRE 2024 Framework, the third iteration of GÉANT’s flagship cloud frameworks, officially starts today, 3 February 2025, and will be in place for a period of five years. Resulting from a pan-European procurement established under the GÉANT (GN5-1) Project and building on the successes of the previous frameworks, the OCRE 2024 Framework will enable tens of thousands of European Research and Education (R&E) institutions and public institutions across 39 countries to procure innovative cloud services in an easy, compliant, and cost-effective way. The OCRE 2024 Framework delivers an impressive portfolio of 416 cloud service offerings across 17 cloud platforms for IaaS (Infrastructure...
We are pleased to share that the signature process of OCRE 2024 Framework agreements is rapidly progressing in line with the approaching start date of the OCRE 2024 Framework, planned for 3 February 2025. The process involves the formalisation of 416 framework agreements with a wide range of commercial cloud service providers, offering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. With the majority of the contracts already countersigned by service providers, OCRE 2024 framework agreements will soon be available for all the institutions that had expressed their willingness to participate through their National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). The full list of...
Since 2016, GÉANT’s flagship cloud frameworks have fostered digital transformation across Europe, by enabling easy, convenient, and compliant consumption of commercial cloud services for Research and Education (R&E) institutions. In this article, we provide a comprehensive update on the current and upcoming cloud service agreements for the pan-European R&E community. An update on the OCRE 2024 Framework (available from February 2025) Following an intensive phase of evaluation of tender responses, we are pleased to share with our community that the new GÉANT cloud framework – OCRE2024 – is now in the final stages of preparation. The new framework agreements are expected to become available on 3 February 2025 and will be in place...
21 March 2024. GÉANT is delighted to announce the publication of the OCRE 2024 Tender for the large-scale procurement of commercial cloud services offerings for its pan-European Research and Education community. The tender aims to procure the OCRE 2024 Cloud framework agreements – the third iteration of GÉANT’s flagship cloud frameworks that since 2016 have enabled easy, convenient, and compliant consumption of commercial cloud services for R&E institutions across Europe. The tender documents and the portal for responding to the OCRE 2024 tender can be found in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU): Unlocking the innovative potential of commercial cloud for Research and Education across Europe Commercial cloud...
GÉANT, the collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), is pleased to announce the opening of a market consultation for the upcoming ‘OCRE 2024’ tender, with the issue of a related Prior Information Notice (PIN). Towards the GÉANT Cloud Framework ‘OCRE 2024’ As one of the main high-level objectives of the GN5-1 project, GÉANT is currently preparing the re-procurement of its flagship cloud framework. Now gearing up towards its third iteration, this successful initiative has driven innovation and digital transformation across Europe since 2016 by enabling Research and Education institutions to find, acquire and consume vetted commercial cloud services, whilst benefiting from reduced costs and easier procurement...