SPACE4Cities Pre-Commercial Procurement Call for Tenders on "Opening European satellite data for city planning"

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SPACE4Cities Pre-Commercial Procurement Call for Tenders on "Opening European satellite data for city planning". This PCP procurement is a joint procurement by different procurers across Europe that are all facing the same common challenge and are thus looking for similar solutions (so-called ‘buyers group’). 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 (Suppliers) in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it possible to compare competing alternative solutions. Each selected R&D provider will be awarded a framework agreement that covers the following R&D phases and a specific contract per phase (if indeed selected for the next phase). The 3 phases are: solution design (phase 1 with 20 selected Suppliers), prototyping and lab testing (phase 2 with 10 Suppliers), original development, installation, validation and field testing of a limited set of first products or services (phase 3 with 5 Suppliers). After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best evaluation scores (based on the functional and non-functional requirements in Tender Document 2) will be offered a specific contract for the next phase. Testing in Phase 3 is expected to take place in Helsinki, Amsterdam, Ghent, Guimaraes and the Attica Region, as well as 10 (smaller) tests in yet-to-be-defined cities throughout Europe. This testing may also serve as a first customer test reference for the contractors. The procurement is expected to start in May 2025 (after selection of the Phase 1 Suppliers) and end in April 2027. 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 market potential is estimated to be large.

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