Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-02-03
Buyer: Directorate General for Maritime Policy (DGPM)
Country: PT
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 22114300 | 32533000 | 32534000 | 34712200 | 35631200
Estimated value: 2769106 EUR
Submission deadline: 2018-04-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: This PCP is carried out by DGPM appointed as lead procurer to coordinate and lead the joint procurement in the name and on behalf of the buyers group. Portuguese procurement law is applicable.
Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to buy R&D services to bridge innovative downstream Earth observation and copernicus enabled services for integrated maritime environment, surveillance and security
The aim of Marine-EO procurement is to develop, test and validate a bundle of innovative EO downstream services bringing incremental or radical innovations in the field of maritime awareness leveraging on the existing Copernicus services (i.e. CMEMS, Security) and other products from the Copernicus portfolio. In addition, a series of “support” services will standardize the way that EO is used for maritime awareness with regards to operational, technological, semantic and legal interoperability issues. The Marine-EO procurement seeks to cover the sea-basins of Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Arctic, by adapting Copernicus data and information in order to meet the demand of the buyers group. The innovative EO downstream services are divided in 2 thematic areas:
At least 50 % of the contracted R&D services in EU Member States or Horizon 2020 associated countries.
The procurement will take the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it possible to compare competing alternative solutions.
— R&D up to original development, validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services.
After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase.
The phased approach with parallel contracts and intermediate evaluations will be followed within each lot.
Testing is expected to take place in different AOIs will cover participating countries, according to the specifications presented in TD2. This testing may also serve as a first customer test reference for the contractors. The procurement is expected to start in 18.6.2018 and end in 15.10.2020.
The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions i.e. beyond the procurers.
The EU has given a grant for this procurement but is not participating as a contracting authority. This procurement is exempted from the GPA, the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them because procurement of R&D services where the benefits do not accrue exclusively to the contracting authority for its use in the conduct of its own affairs.
At least 50 % of the contracted R&D services in EU Member States or Horizon 2020 associated countries.
The procurement will take the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it possible to compare competing alternative solutions.
— R&D up to original development, validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services.
After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase.


Award value: 2769106