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    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR AI SAFETY

    European Commission, DG REGIO - Regional and Urban Policy

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR AI SAFETY

    1. Competition notice published

      Jul 9, 2025 9:46 AMJuly 9, 2025 9:46 AM

    2. Change in competition

      Jul 18, 2025 8:04 AMJuly 18, 2025 8:04 AM

    3. Supplier selection

      Nov 11, 2025 12:00 AMNovember 11, 2025 12:00 AM

    4. Contract signed

      Nov 27, 2025 12:00 AMNovember 27, 2025 12:00 AM

    5. Result notice published

      Dec 23, 2025 3:32 PMDecember 23, 2025 3:32 PM

    Brief

    Belgium: Tenders/European Commission, DG REGIO - Regional and Urban Policy/ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR AI SAFETY

    Awarded

    The competition has ended and a winner has been selected.

    Brief

    Bedriftsrådgivning

    The European Commission, DG CNECT - Communications Networks, Content and Technology, has entered into an agreement with multiple suppliers including TECHNOPOLIS CONSULTING GROUP BELGIUM, WAVESTONE, WIK-CONSULT GMBH, and others, for the delivery of technical assistance services related to AI safety. These services, which fall under the main CPV category of evaluation consulting, will support the AI Office in monitoring compliance with the Artificial Intelligence Act, particularly in assessing risks posed by General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) models at a Union level. The contract has a duration of 36 months and an estimated total value of 7,373,018 EUR. The procurement was split into six lots, with five dedicated to specific systemic risks (CBRN, cyber offense, loss of control, harmful manipulation, and sociotechnical risks) and one cross-cutting lot for an agentic evaluation interface. The services include organizing risk modeling workshops, developing new evaluation tools, onboarding existing evaluations, creating reference procedures for risk assessment, providing ad hoc complex evaluations, and offering a risk monitoring service.

    Result

    Winners
    • CAPGEMINI CONSULTING
    • Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA
    • Clarity AI Research Inc
    • Epoch Artificial Intelligence, Inc.
    • EquiStamp Inc.
    • FAR AI, Inc.
    • LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE METROLOGIE ET D'ESSAIS
    • MINISTERE DU BUDGET DES COMPTES PUBLICS ET DE LA FONCTION PUBLIQUE ET DE LA REFORME DE L'ETAT
    • Model Evaluation and Threat Research, Inc.
    • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenscha Ppelijk Onderzoek TNO
    • SaferAI
    • SecureBio
    • TECHNOPOLIS CONSULTING GROUP BELGIUM
    • WAVESTONE
    • WIK-Consult GmbH
    Number of bids
    10
    Contract value
    €7,373,018

    About the bid

      Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), which has entered into force on the 1st of August 2024, and for which certain rules will become applicable on the 2nd of August 2025 establishes a comprehensive legal framework governing the area of Artificial Intelligence, and in particular relevance to this procurement, establishes responsibilities for providers of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) models, aiming to ensure transparency, safety, and accountability in the deployment and use of AI technologies. Articles 89 and 92 of the AI Act respectively allow the AI Office to monitor the compliance with regards to the AI Act and perform evaluations of GPAI models to assess the compliance and investigate systemic risks at Union level. Article 93 of the AI Act allows the Commission to request providers to take appropriate measures to comply with the obligations, to implement mitigation measures, or to restrict the availability of the model. In order to carry out these enforcement tasks in relation the AI Act, the AI Office is seeking support of suitable third-party contractors to provide technical assistance aimed at supporting the monitoring of compliance, in particular in its assessment of risks posed by GPAI models at Union level. This tender has been split into six lots. Five of those lots dedicated to specific systemic risks, namely (i) CBRN risks, (ii) cyber offence risks, (iii) loss of control risks, (iv) harmful manipulation risks and (v) sociotechnical risks. These lots all share a similar tasks and services: • The organisation of multiple risk modelling workshops together with the AI Office, producing a risk model, risk scenarios, as well as corresponding thresholds, informing further work on evaluations. • The development of newly evaluation tools that are private to the Commission. • The onboarding of existing evaluations that are publicly available into the developed risk framework. • The creation of a reference procedure and reporting template for doing risk assessment with respect to the developed evaluations. • Ad hoc and on demand services for complex evaluations, including for example red-teaming and uplift studies. • A risk monitoring service in the form of regular briefings on new developments (e.g. models, risk sources, elicitation techniques, mitigation, incidents) to complement existing AI Office monitoring actions. The scope of these tasks varies by lot. Furthermore, there is one lot that is cross-cutting across various risk. • Lot 6: agentic evaluation interface, procuring software, Cloud infrastructure support, and methodology to evaluate GPAI on diverse types of benchmarks, focusing on agentic interaction and complex agentic benchmarks.

      Contact phone
      +32 2 299 11 11
      Contact email
      CNECT-TENDERING@ec.europa.eu
      Address
      CSM1, rue Père de Deken 23, B-1040 Brussels

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    Contracting authority
    European Commission, DG REGIO - Regional and Urban Policy
    Title
    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR AI SAFETY
    Type
    ResultPrequalification
    Main code
    79419000Evaluation consultancy services
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    Estimated value
    €9,330,000.00
    Duration
    36 months

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