ESA Open Invitation to Tender AO10352
Open Date: 15/06/2020
Closing Date: 31/08/2020 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 20.187.08
Prog. Ref.: Data Access Contrib
Budget Ref.: E/E016-01 – Data Access Contrib
Special Prov.: AT+BE+BG+CY+CZ+DE+DK+ES+EE+FR+FI+GB+GR+HU+HR+IT+IE+IS+LT+LU+LV+MT+NO+NL+PL+PT+RO+SE+SI+SK
Tender Type: C
Price Range: > 500 KEURO
Products: Ground Segment / Mission Operations / Other
Technology Domains: Space System Software / Earth Observation Payload Data Exploitation / Data and Information Processing and Exploitation
Establishment: ESRIN
Directorate: Directorate of EO Programmes
Department: EO Mission Management & GS Department
Division: EO Mission Mngmt & Product Quality Div.
Contract Officer: Schwarz, Nathalie
Industrial Policy Measure: N/A – Not apply
Last Update Date: 15/06/2020
Update Reason: Tender issue

Objective of the Very High Resolution 2021 (VHR2021) coverage is to provide the Copernicus Service and possibly other users authorised by the European Commission with a complete coverage of the region EEA-39 with Earth Observation very high resolution optical data. The procurement intends to cover, through the resulting Contract, the provision and licensing by Copernicus Contributing Mission Entities (CCMEs) of a homogeneous (i.e. with respect to temporal, spectral and spatial characteristics) full coverage of the region EEA-39 for the reference year 2021 with multispectral orthorectified data with a resolution in the range of 2 to 4 meters and with cloud-, cloudshadow- and haze-free conditions. A compulsory 2-meter-only area of interest will be specified. Archived data from 2020may only be used if necessary to achieve the full coverage. Data from 2022 may only be used for limited gap-filling needs. Specificrequirements and price strategy will be specified in the forthcoming Statement of Work. The data supply will then be embedded in the Copernicus Space Component Data Access and operated through the systems in use for other Copernicus datasets.This procurement isfunded by the Copernicus Programme under the MFF for 2014-2020 and will be open exclusively to economic operators which have their registered office in an EU Member State or a State participating in the Copernicus Programme. The ITT package (Cover Letter, Statement of Work, Special Conditions of Tender, Draft Contract) will be published on ESA tendering website (EMITS http://emits.sso.esa.int/emits/owa/emits.main )In order to access the ITT Package from EMITS, Tenderers must be registered as a potential ESA supplier. Any Tenderer which is not yet registered with ESA as a potential supplier must complete the online questionnaire on esa star https://esastar-emr.sso.esa.int/. Further information on the registration process can be found in ESA’s INDUSTRY PORTAL available at: http://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 userswishing to do business with ESA to carry out their registration in two steps. A “Light” registration will grant access to all esa-star services up to and including proposal submission. The award of ESA contracts requires “Full” registration