Original Coverage & Source Attribution: ceo.com.pl
Poland’s NASK research institute has announced changes to a public cloud procurement after the Polish Cloud Employers’ Association challenged the tender before the National Appeals Chamber (KIO). The association argued that technical specifications, migration requirements and scoring rules gave Microsoft Azure an advantage.
This is the association’s second intervention in the procurement. A previous procedure was cancelled after an earlier appeal. NASK launched the new tender on 18 August 2026, with another appeal filed ten days later.
Azure services named in technical specifications
According to the association, at least 30 of 71 items in one section referred to Microsoft Azure product names. Although equivalent solutions were formally permitted, the complainant argued that their assessment criteria were insufficiently clear.
NASK has pledged to provide functional descriptions and clearer equivalence rules.
Migration scoring under scrutiny
The documents cited differing migration inventories of 1,652 and 1,847 components. A criterion concerning migration work hours accounted for 20% of the available points. The association argued that remaining on Azure could make the migration burden substantially lighter than switching providers.
NASK says it will revise the scoring criteria, standardise the migration inventory and remove product-specific references from training requirements. It also plans to revise contract language to accommodate cloud providers operating their own infrastructure.
The institute has not accepted every demand and says the amendments should not be interpreted as an admission that the original documents were unlawful.
