Space Standards Liaison

The UK Space Agency has commissioned technical

support to ensure that the working level technical

activities of the space standards bodies; Consultative

Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), Inter-

Operability Advisory Group (IOAG) and European

Ground System - Common Core (EGS-CC) are

supported. This work will be carried out in a coordination

and sometimes advisory function, but one

at a very technical level that demands key

competences - technical knowledge, organisational or

individual qualifications in space engineering,

operations, and applications themselves. Providers of

this technical support are required to be suitably

objective and independent from financial involvement

in the markets covered by the relevant standards - a

requirement mandated by the standards agreements

themselves.

Total Opportunity value was estimated at £880,000 across 3 lots (3 contracts), for up to 4 years (1 year +1+1+1) for each lot. Actual contract values are as follows;

Lot 1: Technical Support - Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) - The contract duration is 1 year with the provision to extend the contract annually by 1 additional year up to a maximum of 3 additional years (1 year+1+1+1). The value of the contract for year 1 is £49,991 which shall also be the maximum annual value of any additional years added, up to the maximum contract value of £199,964 (1 year +1+1+1)

Lot 2: Technical Support - Inter Operability Advisory Group (IOAG) - The contract duration is 1 year with the provision to extend the contract annually by 1 additional year up to a maximum of 3 additional years (1 year+1+1+1). The value of the contract for year 1 is £70,000 which shall also be the maximum annual value of any additional years added, up to the maximum contract value of £280,000 (1 year+1+1+1)

Lot 3: Technical Support - European Ground System - Common Core (EGS-CC) - The contract duration is 1 year with the provision to extend the contract annually by 1 additional year up to a maximum of 3 additional years (1 year+1+1+1). The value of the contract for year 1 is £99,960 which shall also be the maximum annual value of any additional years added, up to the maximum contract value of £399,880 (1 year+1+1+1)