Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-05-18
Buyer: European Space Agency (ESRIN)
Country: IT
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 73000000

Technical requirements: The intended tender shall establish a worldwide benchmark for the access to Sentinels data.ESA operates and distributes data from Sentinels 1, 2, 3 (land) and 5P through terrestrial networks and makesdata available to all users on the Sentinels Open Access Data Hub (scihub.copernicus.eu), as well as todedicated user communities on dedicated hubs (i.e. CopHub, IntHub and CollHub), via powerful applicationprogramming interfaces (https://scihub.copernicus.eu/user guide/5APIsAndBatchScripting). In addition, 4 DataAccess and Information Service (DIAS) contracts are being started by ESA to provide access to Sentinels datathrough highly scalable cloud computing environments.ESA constantly monitors and reports about the performances of the access points under its own responsibility.However, the user experience may depend on other factors (e.g. local connectivity and infrastructuresconditions) that cannot be directly related to the hub performances.The current activity aims at establishing an independent, geographically characterized benchmark from the“user perspective”. This shall be achieved by accessing Sentinels data from different locations in Europeand beyond, and by systematically recording the corresponding performances. The obtained results shall be carefully analysed with respect to the statistics obtained locally at the data access points and also withrespect to analogous access experiences from notable third party sites providing similar services (i.e. EO datadiscovery, view and download). The obtained benchmarks shall be described in an effective way in view offuture possible open releases. In order to safeguard the independency of the exercise, bidders shall showsubstantial absence of potential conflicts of interest with respect to Sentinels data distribution. This iITT will befound in EMITS under the following reference numbers AIRN number 18.18I.06 and AO number: 1-9372This Invitation to Tender will be published by the European Space Agency (ESA). It will be open exclusively toeconomic operators which have their registered office in an EU Member State or Iceland or Norway.The European Space Agency (ESA) will make the entire ITT package (Cover Letter, Statement of Work, SpecialConditions of Tender, Draft Contract) available on its tendering website (EMITShttp://emits.sso.esa.int/emits/owa/emits.main), and on its dedicated Copernicus server (https://copernicusemits.esa.int/).In order to access the ITT Package from EMITS, a Tenderer must be registered as a potential ESA Tenderer.Any potential Tenderers wishing to register with ESA as a potential Tenderer is requested tocomplete the online questionnaire on the “esa-star registration” website: https://esastar-emr.sso.esa.int. Whilethe registration process is underway, Tenderers may access the ITT Package through ESA’s dedicatedCopernicus server, which is accessible at: https://copernicus-emits.esa.int/ Tenderers are informed, however,that before submitting a proposal they must at least have completed the “lightregistration” as described in the following “esa-star” Registration Manual: http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/business_with_esa/CG-EM-ORR-S-16_End_User_Manual_v1.2.pdfFurther information on the registration process can be found on the Industry Portal pages available at:http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/How_to_do/esa-star_Registration_Process
This iITT will be found in EMITS under the following reference numbers AIRN number 18.18I.06 and AOnumber: 1-9372
This Invitation to Tender will be published by the European Space Agency (ESA). It will be open exclusively toeconomic operators which have their registered office in an EU Member State or Iceland or Norway.
The European Space Agency (ESA) will make the entire ITT package (Cover Letter, Statement of Work, SpecialConditions of Tender, Draft Contract) available on its tendering website (EMITShttp://emits.sso.esa.int/emits/owa/emits.main), and on its dedicated Copernicus server (https://copernicusemits.esa.int/).
In order to access the ITT Package from EMITS, a Tenderer must be registered as a potential ESA Tenderer.
Any potential Tenderers wishing to register with ESA as a potential Tenderer is requested tocomplete the online questionnaire on the “esa-star registration” website: https://esastar-emr.sso.esa.int. Whilethe registration process is underway, Tenderers may access the ITT Package through ESA’s dedicatedCopernicus server, which is accessible at: https://copernicus-emits.esa.int/
Tenderers are informed, however,that before submitting a proposal they must at least have completed the “lightregistration” as described in the following “esa-star” Registration Manual:http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/business_with_esa/CG-EM-ORR-S-16_End_User_Manual_v1.2.pdf
Further information on the registration process can be found on the Industry Portal pages available at:http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/How_to_do/esa-star_Registration_Process .