Integrate the Sovereignty Profile as a prerequisite in our next procurement-listing processes for technology providers#
What this is, concretely#
This commitment consists of modifying your internal procurement and listing processes so that the publication of a Sovereignty Profile by a provider becomes a formal element of the decision. Concretely, this can take several forms: adding an explicit question in your listing questionnaires (“Do you publish a Sovereignty Profile at /sovereignty.json?”), weighting the availability of the Profile in evaluation grids, requiring a Profile for any high-stakes listing, or simply preferring it at parity.
The commitment does not require that you reject providers without a Profile — it requires that the availability of the Profile be visible in your process, and that it weigh positively. The gradation is left to your discretion: some organisations will make it a hard prerequisite (no Profile, no listing), others a preference (at comparable offers, the provider with a Profile is chosen), still others an informational signal integrated into a wider analysis.
Why this commitment matters#
Without structured demand from buyers, the publication of a Profile by providers remains a voluntary act that depends on their maturity alone. With structured demand, it becomes a market expectation. The manifesto formulates this dynamic in thesis 12: “as long as European providers position themselves as distributors of bricks under foreign governance, they deprive sovereign alternatives of the clients, the capital, and the critical mass that would let them exist.” The reverse mechanism also works: as long as buyers do not ask for a Profile, providers have no reason to publish one.
The commitment naturally reinforces itself with user-001-audit-dependencies: if you have audited your exposure, you know on which issues the publication of a Profile by your providers would be most useful to you. It also paves the way for the more demanding user-007-require-suppliers-profile, which moves to a prerequisite on high-stakes tenders.
The collective effect is massive: if a few hundred European buyers turn the publication of a Profile into an explicit positive signal, the incentive for providers changes in nature. The cost of publication is low (the web generator is free, the format standardised), but the commercial benefit becomes visible.
A concrete example#
A French mutual insurance company of about 600 employees, whose IT department manages a portfolio of around fifty applications, takes this commitment in May 2026 with a 12-month horizon. The procurement department and the IT department work together to modify the standard listing questionnaire. Three questions are added: the governance jurisdiction of the solution, the existence of a published Sovereignty Profile, and the existence of documented contingency plans in case of a licence flip.
For the first six months, the mutual applies this grid to three contract renewals (a CRM, a document management platform, an analytics solution). Of the three outgoing providers, none publishes a Profile. Of the six providers in the running for renewal, two publish a Profile — one is a French publisher who published its Profile as early as autumn 2025, the other a Belgian publisher who publishes one during the listing process, alerted by the mutual’s explicit request. At the close of the process, the CRM contract is awarded to the French publisher. The mutual then publishes an internal feedback report and notifies the manifesto’s public index of the availability of Profiles at its new providers.
Anti-pattern to avoid#
An evaluation grid where the publication of the Profile carries no effective weight — for example, a tick-box without weighting in a matrix where price alone decides — does not fulfil the commitment. The typical hollow phrasing: “we will take into account, among other criteria, providers’ transparency efforts.” If the consideration has no consequence on the decision, it does not exist from the provider’s standpoint, and the commitment produces no signal. A modest but real weight beats a ritual mention.
Success indicators#
By the 12-month horizon, you can reasonably consider this commitment fulfilled if your listing questionnaires now include an explicit question on the Sovereignty Profile, if at least one decision process has actually used this information, and if you can document at least one case where the availability of the Profile was an element of the choice. Internal or external publication of feedback strengthens the collective value of the commitment.
JSON schema category: procurement. Default horizon: 12 months. Applicable to: businesses, public administrations, associations, foundations, research institutions.