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

Buyer: European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking

Published
1 October 2026
Submission deadline
3 December 2026, 17:00
Estimated value
€10,000,000,000
Procedure
Open procedure
Documents
1
Notice number
00674672-2026
Reference
bc712395-692d-41ab-aa25-8e254ae86eb2
Official source
Official source

CPV codes

Description

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 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 includi…

Lots (2)

LotDescriptionCPV codeAmount
1 Call for Tenders for the selection of Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory Consortia and the establishment of Medium-Scale AI Gigafactories 72500000 Computer-related services €4,000,000,000
2 Selection of Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory Consortia for the establishment of Large-Scale AI Gigafactories 72500000 Computer-related services €6,000,000,000

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The contracting authority is European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (European Union).
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