Recital (79)

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Official source: COM(2026) 502 final — Proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act

(79)

The rules governing responsibility and the applicable public procurement framework
            between the Commission, acting as a central purchasing body, and the participating
            entities procuring through it should be clarified in the agreement. Where a
            participating entity conducts certain parts of the procurement procedure autonomously,
            it should remain solely responsible for those stages of autonomous conduct. A
            contracting authority which acts as a central purchasing body and has acquired
            services or supplies through the Commission should be permitted to offer those
            services to other contracting authorities without applying the public procurement
            procedures provided for under applicable Union law. In that case, the contracting
            authority is bound to comply with the initial contractual provisions in any subsequent
            contract.

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