+Article 9 5.

Article 9 5.

Following a call for expression of interest, the hosting entity referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article and the corresponding Participating State where the hosting entity is established or the corresponding hosting consortium shall be selected by the Governing Board through a fair and transparent process based, inter alia, on the following criteria:

(a) 

compliance with the general system specifications defined in the call for expression of interest;

(b) 

total cost of ownership of the EuroHPC supercomputer, including an accurate estimate and a verification method of the operating costs of this supercomputer during its lifetime;

(c) 

experience of the hosting entity in installing and operating similar systems;

(d) 

quality of the hosting facility’s physical and IT infrastructure, its security and its connectivity with the rest of the Union;

(e) 

quality of service to the users, namely capability to comply with the service level agreement provided among the documents accompanying the selection procedure;

(f) 

provision of an appropriate supporting document proving the commitment of the Member State where the hosting entity is established or of the competent authorities of the Participating States of the hosting consortium to cover the share of the total cost of ownership of the EuroHPC supercomputer that is not covered by the Union contribution as set out in Article 5 or any other Union contribution as set out in Article 6, either until its ownership is transferred by the Joint Undertaking to that hosting entity or until the supercomputer is sold or decommissioned if there is no transfer of ownership.

For the AI-optimised supercomputers the following additional selection criteria shall apply for the hosting entities:

(a) 

proximity with an established datacentre or connection to an established datacentre via very high speed networks;

(b) 

vision, plans and capability of the hosting entity to address the challenges of the AI startup ecosystem, the research and innovation ecosystem and the AI user community, and providing a supportive centralised or distributed AI-oriented supercomputing service;

(c) 

quality and pertinence of experience and know-how available amongst the team that is expected to be in charge for the supportive AI-oriented supercomputing service environment;

(d) 

plans for interaction and cooperation with other AI factories, with EuroHPC Competence Centres and EuroHPC Centres of Excellence and with relevant AI initiatives such as the hubs of Artificial Intelligence startups, the Artificial Intelligence and data ecosystems, the Artificial Intelligence Testing and Experimentation Facilities, the European central Artificial Intelligence platform, the Artificial Intelligence-oriented Digital Innovation Hubs and other related initiatives;

(e) 

existing capabilities and future plans of the hosting entity to contribute to the development of the talent pool.

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