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# Bavaria's planned EUR 1 billion Microsoft deal draws fire for skipping tender
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-12-14-bavaria-microsoft-no-tender-contract/
- Published: 2025-12-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T12:01:27.000Z
- Description: Bavaria's finance ministry is negotiating a roughly EUR 1 billion, five year Microsoft framework agreement for state and municipal cloud licensing without a competitive tender. Its own digital minister and over 160 IT firms have publicly challenged the deal on sovereignty grounds.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Policy and law, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [heise online, 14 December 2025](https://www.heise.de/news/Cloud-Zoff-in-Bayern-wegen-Milliardenauftrag-an-Microsoft-ohne-Ausschreibung-11114453.html?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that the contract has been signed or that any tender exemption has been legally justified.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-07\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)