Earlier this year, ten of Europe’s leading public research organisations with co-funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme - launched the Helix Nebula Science Cloud (HNSciCloud) Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP). The four successful consortia were announced on November 2nd, in Lyon during the award ceremony hosted by CC-IN2P3 (CNRS), one of the main academic data centres in France and a procurer of HNSciCloud. The ceremony was followed by around 80 participants, and the representatives of the four winning consortia presented their vision and approaches for the design of the hybrid cloud platform.