public procurement

European public administrations are waking up to a stark, uncomfortable fact: much of the EU’s day-to-day work — messaging, documents, calendars, collaboration and even parts of the software supply chain — runs on infrastructure and platforms controlled by a handful of U.S. companies. At a...

Bozhidar Bozhanov, a senior opposition figure and former minister for electronic governance, has publicly warned that a recent Council of Ministers decision to authorise a central public procurement for Microsoft products could lock Bulgaria’s state administration into long‑term technical...

Bojidar Bozhanov has raised a red flag: the Bulgarian government is preparing to open a public procurement and sign a new, large-scale contracting arrangement with Microsoft to cover core software and cloud services for the state administration — a move he says carries long-term risks for...