Procurement of digital sovereign school workspaces for all schools in Switzerland

The specialist agency Educa will – on the basis of the service agreement between the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK), the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and Educa – carry out the call for tenders for services relating to digital workspaces for schools of compulsory and post-compulsory educational level and of tertiary level B professional education and training in Switzerland.

Framework agreements are to be concluded with several providers of school workspaces in order to offer a choice. This selection should include in particular digital sovereign solutions, also from open-source ecosystems.

The workspaces are interoperable with the recipients’ pedagogical and didactic environment. They enable identity management that can be integrated with public-sector infrastructures. The sought-after solution enables schools to safeguard their sovereignty in the digital space. The proposals will also be evaluated on the basis of sustainability criteria.

Outside the scope of this tender, Educa will not conduct any preliminary negotiation in order to conclude supplier-specific framework agreements.