Official name: European Space Agency (ESA)
Postal address: Keplerlaan 1
Town: Noordwijk
NUTS code: NL337 Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek
Postal code: 2201 AZ
Country: Netherlands
Contact person: william costes
E-mail: william.costes@esa.int
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.esa.int/ESA
Address of the buyer profile: https://esastar-publication.sso.esa.int/

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://esastar-publication-ext.sso.esa.int/

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

European institution/agency or international organisation

General public services

HE-ESA-015 - Optics Inter-Satellite-Link Proof of concept for GNSS and PNT

35631300 Navigation satellites

Supplies

73100000 Research and experimental development services

NUTS code: NL337 Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek

Main site or place of performance:

ESA-ESTEC

The objective of this activity is to develop critical building block for Optical-Inter Satellite Link (OISL) dedicated to GNSS and PNT. The technical feasibility demonstration shall be achieved through the development and delivery of an interoperable Elegant Breadboard with additional GSE and tools, to validate key functions and performances for GNSS and PNT applications.

This activity belongs to Galileo/EGNOS Upstream R&D which is part of the space component of Horizon Europe, under which, in line with the signed FFPA and relevant Contribution Agreement, ESA is delegated by the European Commission to manage this activity. ESA adapted procurement rules will apply as per the ITT to be published (open Competition in 2 stages). ESA reserves the right to place one parallel Contract subject to weighted quality of the proposal of at least 60 points, budget availability and related programmatic decision.

The ITT package will be available on ESA tendering website (esa-star - https://esastar-publication-ext.sso.esa.int/ ).

In order to access the ITT package on esa-star, tenderers must be registered on the platform as potential ESA suppliers. Any tenderer which is not yet registered with ESA as a potential supplier must complete the online questionnaire in ESA-star: https://esastar-emr.sso.esa.int/ .

Further information on the registration process can be found on ESA's industry portal, available at:

- https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/esa-star_open_for_business

- http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/How_to_do/esa-star_Registration_Process

Please note that esa-star allows two levels of entity registration: 'Light' and 'Full'. This allows new users wishing to do business with ESA to carry out their registration in two steps. While 'Light' registration will grant access to all ESA-star services up to and including proposal submission, the award of ESA contracts requires 'Full' registration.

02/06/2023