A €2 million, three to four year framework contract for providing open source IT support was awarded to open source specialist Alter Way, system integrator Capgemini and Java specialist Zenika by Disic, the central IT department for the French government.

The Helsinki city council strongly encourages its IT department to continue with the use of open source software alternatives instead of an IT vendor lock-in. On 13 June 2012, 50 of the city's 85 council members supported a resolution instructing the IT department to keep supporting an open source office suite.

The example of the city of Munich has shown that combining virtualisation and web based applications results in an open and flexible computing platform, independent from IT vendors. Such a switch requires political, management and staff support.

The Directorate General for Innovation and Technological Support of the European Parliament (EP) is to produce a report on the EP's free and open source software programmes. MEP Bart Staes (Group of the Green and European Free Alliance) said on 10 May 2012 that this is a requirement for the discharge of the EP's 2010 budget committee.

The Government of the Navarra Region in Spain has decided to share its 'Justice Management system’ (Avantius), a document management system (DMS) tailored to judicial documents. The system is already used in courts in Navarra and Cantabria.

The experiences and best practices from the EU's INSPIRE initiative to increase the sharing and reuse of geographic information, could be of use to others working on frameworks for harmonising and reusing data.

A campaign for free software has recently garnered the support of 267 candidates running for France's National Assembly Elections on 10 and 17 June 2012.

The National Council of Switzerland on 3 May 2012 adopted a resolution pointing out that eGovernment services must work on all kinds of computing platforms and should not depend on a single IT vendor. 

Public administrations in Italy's Lazio region are encouraged to replace proprietary software with open source alternatives, according to the relevant article of the new law on open data adopted on 23 May 2012. The law also foresees that all software developed for and by the regions’ public organisations should be made available as open source.