Malta has opened a €15.66 million procurement for a European Digital Identity Wallet and supporting trust ecosystem, moving the country’s EUDI implementation into a large public tender.
The open procedure, reference CT2274/2026, seeks services for a fully compliant wallet, its trust infrastructure and related use cases for the Malta Digital Innovation Authority. The contract is not divided into lots and will be evaluated using the best price-quality ratio rather than price alone.
Clarification requests are due August 10, with responses scheduled by August 15. Suppliers have until September 3 at 9:30 a.m. local time to submit bids, and the tender opening is set for 10 a.m. the same day. The procurement is above the applicable EU threshold and is not identified as EU-funded.
The scope places the wallet and trust ecosystem in one contract. That approach gives the selected provider responsibility beyond a consumer-facing application, extending the work to the services and use cases required for issuers, holders and relying parties to exchange identity data and attestations.
Under the European Digital Identity Regulation, every EU member state must provide at least one wallet by the end of 2026. The wallets are intended to support voluntary identification for public and private services, storage of documents such as mobile driving licenses and diplomas, electronic signatures and selective sharing of personal attributes.
Malta has several other identity procurements underway, but they cover different layers. The Malta Information Technology Agency recently opened a €310,000 tender for online identity verification. The new MDIA procedure is roughly 50 times larger and is centered on the national EUDI Wallet environment rather than a standalone verification service.
Across Europe, wallet programs are progressing through different implementation models. Lithuania, for example, selected Procivis for an EUDI Wallet sandbox, while Malta is procuring a broader production-oriented package through an open competition.
The €15,659,714 estimate makes the program one of Malta’s more substantial recent identity procurements. Its outcome will determine who builds the wallet and how the surrounding trust services and initial use cases are assembled in Malta ahead of the EU deadline.
Sources: Malta Electronic Tendering System, European Commission
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
