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Ireland cancels up to EUR 1 billion Microsoft tender over sovereignty concerns

Ireland's Office of Government Procurement cancelled a planned EUR 750 million to EUR 1 billion Microsoft framework after an interested party raised concerns, minister Frankie Feighan told the Dáil, with a fresh tender promised "as early as feasible".

Reported The Register, 22 July 2026

What it does not test. This does not establish that any alternative supplier was chosen, or that the existing EUR 350 million Microsoft framework will not simply continue.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Tender cancelled but no alt supplier chosen; existing MS framework may just continue.. European Sovereignty Index

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