Sovereign IT mapping for the public sector

A few months after joining the catalogue of AMUE (the French shared-services agency for universities and higher education institutions), Boldo is taking another major step: the French enterprise architecture and IT mapping platform is now listed on UGAP, France's leading central purchasing body for the public sector.

In practical terms, this means that more than 26,000 public buyers, including local authorities, hospitals, ministries, educational institutions and government departments, can now acquire Boldo without running a competitive tendering procedure, via the dedicated page on ugap.fr. A simplified access route, fully compliant with the French public procurement code, that significantly widens the field of possibilities for public sector CIOs.

The public sector facing unprecedented architectural challenges

Why does this dual presence, on UGAP and AMUE, make particular sense? Because public organisations are, by nature, terrains of rare architectural complexity.

A large local authority typically manages several hundred applications spread across dozens of functional domains: civil registration, finance, human resources, urban planning, social services, schools, transport, culture, public safety, and more. A ministry covers an even broader scope, with information systems built up over decades of layering, ongoing transformation programmes, and demanding regulatory constraints. As for the healthcare system, it combines service-continuity imperatives, regulatory requirements (DORA, NIS2, GDPR, HDS certification), interoperability within a dense ecosystem, and constant cyber pressure.

In all of these contexts, public sector CIOs must steer a sprawling application portfolio with teams that are often stretched thin. The need is no longer simply to "document": it is to understand, prioritise, arbitrate and communicate those choices to business directors, elected officials and executive committees who are not, and are not meant to be, technical experts.

Without a shared map, every arbitration becomes a gamble. With a map frozen in a PowerPoint that is eighteen months old, the gamble is even riskier.

Why Boldo addresses the specific needs of the public sector

Three characteristics make Boldo particularly well suited to public actors.

First, sovereignty. Boldo is a French solution, hosted in France on European infrastructure. For organisations handling sensitive data, whether health data, sovereign data or tax data, this dimension is not a marketing argument: it is an operational, legal and strategic requirement. At a time when DORA and NIS2 compliance, together with the "cloud at the centre" doctrine, are shaping public procurement choices, having a sovereign vendor changes the game.

Second, intuitiveness. Enterprise architecture has long been the preserve of certified experts, working in tools designed by them and for them. Boldo takes the opposite stance: modelling, mapping and sharing should be as fluid as working in a modern design tool. The result? A CIO can present their map to an executive committee without spending twenty minutes explaining acronyms. A business owner can contribute to a view without three days of TOGAF training. In a local authority where enterprise architecture skills are scarce, this accessibility makes the difference between a living map and a project that grinds to a halt. It is precisely what enables organisations to "share complexity" rather than be overwhelmed by it.

Finally, metamodel flexibility. The needs of a teaching hospital bear no resemblance to those of a metropolis, which in turn bear no resemblance to those of a ministry or a university. Boldo does not impose a rigid framework to be forced onto each context: its metamodel adapts to the objects, processes and reference frameworks specific to each domain. Business capabilities of a local authority, care pathways of a healthcare facility, pedagogical processes of a university, regulatory schemes of a ministry: each can model its own reality rather than translate it into someone else's vocabulary. This plasticity is what enables a single tool to serve both AMUE for higher education and UGAP for the wider public sector.

A milestone, not a finish line

The UGAP listing, following entry to the AMUE framework, does not mark an endpoint but an acceleration. It makes Boldo accessible, immediately and in full compliance, to every public sector actor looking to regain control of their enterprise architecture.

Whether you are a CIO at a local authority undertaking a major application overhaul, a CISO at a healthcare facility facing NIS2 requirements, or an enterprise architect at a ministry engaged in a transformation programme, the challenge remains the same: turning complexity into clarity, and clarity into decisions.

Talk to our team

To find out concretely what Boldo can bring to your organisation, book a personalised demo. Our team will help you explore how the platform adapts to your specific use cases and your public procurement framework, whether that involves a UGAP listing, an AMUE framework agreement or a dedicated procedure.

Your IT map is waiting for you to bring it to life.