NS (Niederländische Eisenbahn) vergibt IT-Auftrag an US-Anbieter trotz Bedenken hinsichtlich der Abhängigkeit von amerikanischer Technologie
https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/10/ns-gives-contract-us-provider-despite-concerns-dependency-american-tech
Von Malverno
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cheapskates
What concerns? Trump will flip a switch and stop the trains?
Lol the paranoia
Koolmees is a prutser
OMG I hate this.
You cannot disqualify a company from a European tender contract because they’re from another country. If it’s such a big deal, maybe the EU or the Dutch government should make laws. If NS did disqualify DXC then there would be lawsuits because it goes against the EU laws lol.
Not to defend NS, but read this first:
>According to the spokesperson, the systems that the American company will manage are “not mission-critical” and do not process personnel or passenger data. **“Critical systems for train operations and information provision are housed with a Dutch IT provider.”**
So yes, NS is going to us an IT provider from the US, but the critical systems are still operated by a Dutch IT provider.
I guess we need to blame last few Dutch governments for cutting budget in public transport and thus also for NS (they 100% own them, but semi privatized). Now the consequence is NS had no choice but going for the cheapest option, which is that US company.
Weaklings.
>“We are aware that this concerns a subsidiary of an American company,” an NS spokesperson told NRC. “This is an issue that NS, like so many other (semi-)governmental organizations and services, is grappling with.”
>According to the spokesperson, the systems that the American company will manage are “not mission-critical” and do not process personnel or passenger data. “Critical systems for train operations and information provision are housed with a Dutch IT provider.”
As long as the government uses Azure, Windows and Microsoft 365 I feel we have bigger fish to fry.
That’s unfortunate 🥱
Yep they’ve lost their gd minds. 🤦🏻♀️
Netherlands represent. Always picking the shitty option because it saves 2%
Smart! /s
If this was occurring in the US this would signal lawsuits from the competition
They are bound by procurement rules.
„een beetje dom“ dus
This was surely decided by EU-regulated public tender. Given that KPN held the contract, previously, I doubt it was a public-tender tailor-made for DXC to win. Since they applied with an EU-domiciled subsidiary, their offer can’t be discriminated.
> If everyone acts like NS, we will never build our own digital infrastructure
Easy to say if its not your ass that gets sued for messing with a public tender. The question should rather be, how did KPN underperform to lose out on the renewal in the public tender? That’s why you don’t get your own digital infrastructure. Its not NS fault that they have to do a public tender, and US companies are allowed to run subsidiaries in EU, that’s policy out of the responsibility of some tech company.
If we don’t wanna see large companies, especially state owned ones, to give contracts to EU subsidiaries of US or Chinese conglomerates, we have to allow them to discriminate against these in the public tender. Its not fair to blame the company ordering the service, for the result, after you forced a specific order process upon them. Don’t blame the player if the one who sets the rules of the game (in this case, EU) is right around the corner.