Everyone’s Talking About the CV, Nobody’s Talking About the System

Most of LinkedIn is obsessed with the new CV form.

But that’s not where the real story is.

DIGIT-TM III quietly rewrites how the EU thinks about digital outsourcing:

it standardizes people, processes, security, and technology stacks across every Directorate-General.

This isn’t paperwork.

It’s a blueprint for a unified digital workforce across Europe.

The European Commission Just Defined Its Tech DNA

For the first time, the framework explicitly lists preferred tools and technologies:

AWS, Azure, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, React, Angular, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more.

Translation: If you want to sell services to the EU, your stack better match theirs.

This means the Commission is no longer just buying hours, it’s curating an ecosystem.

The Security Section Reads Like a Fortune 500 Policy Manual

Appendix 3a and 3b are brutal, and brilliant.

They enforce:

• Mandatory compliance with EU cybersecurity law (Regulation 2023/2841).

• Security screening for all contractor staff.

• Incident reporting and continuous risk management.

• Acceptable use policies for remote and hybrid work.

• For the first time, freelancers and vendors are held to the same standards as EU employees.

• That’s not red tape, that’s a trust protocol.

Remote Work Got a Legal Framework

Appendix 3b defines four categories of external access (PPW, PPI, PXE, PXI).

Each one dictates exactly:

What equipment can be used

• Where you can work from

• How data must be handled

The takeaway?

Remote work in EU projects just went from “flexible” to formally regulated.

And that’s a game changer for digital contractors across Europe.

It’s the End of “Good Enough” Procurement

DIGIT-TM III’s Service Requirements and SLAs introduce:

KPIs tied to delivery quality and incident response.

Mandatory documentation of risk, compliance, and security controls.

Measurable benchmarks across cloud, data, and application development.

This is procurement 2.0; where performance is measurable, not political.

💡 The Real Story

Everyone’s worried about filling in templates.

Meanwhile, the European Commission is quietly building the most sophisticated digital supply chain in the world.

DIGIT-TM III isn’t about paperwork.

It’s about control, accountability, and interoperability: the three things the EU has struggled with for decades.

🚀 Final Thought

Most suppliers will see DIGIT-TM III as extra work.

A few will recognize it as a market signal:

that the EU wants serious partners who can scale securely, deliver consistently, and speak the same digital language.

Those who adapt fastest won’t just win contracts.

They’ll define the future of how Europe works.