As a research and development service, the contract is excluded from the scope of public procurement law (cf. § 116(1)(2) GWB). Nix is a software deployment system enabling reproducible builds and declarations of entire …
system configurations. It powers Nixpkgs, the world's largest, most up-to-date open-source package repository, and NixOS, a declaratively configured Linux distribution - forming critical infrastructure that numerous organizations rely on for their software supply chain. With its growing adoption, th
e ecosystem faces increasing security challenges around package distribution, vulnerability management, supply chain integrity, and update turnaround time. Nix and NixOS are used by the European Commission's IT department, scientific comput