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Article 33
Monitoring of procurement of innovation in cloud and AI
1. Member States shall monitor and report on their use of procurement of innovation in
cloud computing services and AI systems.
2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that the monitoring and
reporting referred to in paragraph 1 are actively used to identify barriers to SMEs
participation in procurement procedures, to improve access of SMEs to procurement
markets, support the design of simplified, proportionate and SME-friendly
procurement strategies, including division into lots, where appropriate, promote the
participation of SMEs in the innovation procedure foreseen under Directive
2014/24/EU and pre-commercial procurement of cloud computing services and AI
systems.
3. Based on the monitoring referred to in paragraph 1, Member States shall inform the
Commission, on a yearly basis, of the following information:
(a) the size of the economic operators participating in such procurement;
(b) SMEs participation trends, including the number of contracts awarded to
SMEs, their share of the total contract value, as a percentage, and, where
available, the share of cross-border SMEs participation;
(c) measures taken to improve SMEs access to public procurement procedures.
4. Member States shall pursue as objective that at least 25% of their procurement for
cloud computing services and AI systems be awarded to innovative SMEs. Member
States shall include, in their national strategies referred to in Article 7, plans on how
they intend to achieve this objective.
5. Union entities and contracting authorities shall promote:
(a) preliminary market consultations;
(b) matchmaking between public buyers and innovative solutions provided by
European SMEs and start-ups;
(c) development of public contract clauses that are favourable for innovative
SMEs.
Chapter III
European public sector cloud federation