- Federal Ministry for Digitalization and State Modernization awards Telekom and SAP first place in tender for development of a sovereign AI platform
- Intelligent document processing and acceleration of planning and approval procedures
- First practical applications include document processing, knowledge management, and text summarization
Google and adesso have withdrawn their procurement complaints. This clears the way for an AI platform that will, for the first time, provide a shared infrastructure for the federal government, states, and municipalities. Deutsche Telekom, together with SAP as the top-ranked bidder, has been awarded the contract by the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and State Modernization (BMDS) for the tender “Provision of PaaS services for AI applications on a high-performance, secure, and sovereign cloud platform.”
Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger: The Backbone of Digital Administration
With this decision, the German government is sending a strong signal: Germany is accelerating the automation of administrative processes. Karsten Wildberger, Federal Minister for Digitalization and State Modernization, emphasized:
“With the AI cloud, we are creating the backbone of a sovereign, digital, and AI-enabled public administration in Germany. We are implementing a strategic decision: high-performance digitalization for the federal government, states, and municipalities will run on infrastructure that we control ourselves — secure, scalable, and interoperable within Europe. Together with our partners, we are setting the benchmark by which digital sovereignty will be measured in the future. Now it is time to bring digital solutions into public administration at scale and accelerate the modernization our country urgently needs.”
Telekom CEO Höttges: “Europe Is Taking Its Digital Future into Its Own Hands”
For Tim Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG, the decision is also a political commitment: “Anyone who wants to remain relevant in the world must lead in the race for digital sovereignty. Europe has enormous catching up to do — and we will not close that gap through discussions, but through action. Telekom and SAP are leading the way here. Together, we are ensuring that Germany and Europe take their digital future into their own hands.”
Central Hub for Public Administration
The AI platform is designed as a central hub for the entire public administration sector: scalable, expandable, and interoperable with existing specialized procedures. What begins today as infrastructure will become tomorrow’s development environment for new AI-powered public services.
KIPITZ: AI Assistant for Public Administration
Among the first applications is KIPITZ — an AI solution that supports public sector employees with intelligent document processing, knowledge management, translations, text summarization, and the acceleration of planning and approval procedures. The platform integrates AI services, development environments, and interfaces to existing specialized procedures. It will run on Telekom’s sovereign infrastructure.
SAP CEO Christian Klein: “Trustworthy AI as the Foundation of Digital Sovereignty”
For SAP, the initiative also underscores the strategic importance of sovereign AI infrastructure: “Digital sovereignty and artificial intelligence go hand in hand. This initiative addresses exactly that: we are contributing our strengths in business processes, data, and trustworthy AI through the SAP Business AI Platform to accelerate innovation in the public sector together with Telekom – secure, scalable, and based on a common standard for municipalities, states, and the federal government as part of the Germany Stack,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE.
Germany Stack as the Foundation
The AI platform is a key building block of the so-called “Germany Stack” — a shared digital infrastructure for the federal government, states, and municipalities. The goal is for public authorities to build on common technical standards and platforms in the future instead of developing numerous standalone solutions. This is intended to make public administration more modern, secure, and efficient.
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