European tenders are tailored to American IT giants

European tenders are tailored to American IT giants, according to a report from the Danish tech outlet Ingeniøren. Whether the subject is cloud procurement or new rules for AI training, the piece argues that American tech power shows through. A researcher quoted in it says Europe is not taking the work on digital sovereignty seriously.

The article's starting point is the gap between rhetoric and practice. Europe talks a great deal about building its own technology, being digitally sovereign and leaving Silicon Valley behind, and the piece acknowledges that this feels good. But it says European tenders carry a very heavy American bias. That claim rests on figures that the AI-driven tender platform Polytender shared with Ingeniøren's Radar section.

The text available here breaks off before those figures, so it does not say how large the bias is, which tenders were analysed or what the researcher recommends. The researcher is not named in the available text.

The story matters because public procurement is one of the main levers Europe has for turning its sovereignty ambitions into reality. If tenders are written in ways that favour American providers, political commitments to independence from them are undercut in practice. The article sits in Ingeniøren's Big Tech coverage, which includes recent reporting on a Danish ministry that quietly dropped a Microsoft alternative and on millions set aside for a Big Tech exit that have stalled.