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The Tender process
The ESA Tender process is designed to achieve the best possible trade-off between the objectives of technical excellence, economy and industrial policy as defined in the Convention and in the Contracting Regulations.
It is also implemented so as to give tenderers the guarantee that the competitive procedure will be conducted in complete fairness and that their offers will be evaluated with the greatest care and total impartiality.
The implementation of the Tender procedure is a joint task of technical initiating services and the Contracts Department. A major task of representatives of the Contracts Department is to ensure that the rules and procedures, established in order to achieve the objectives stated above, are strictly observed.
The Tender process consists of the following sequential phases:
- The Planning and Preparatory Phase
- The Initiation Phase
- Preparation of the Tender Action
- Distribution of the Tender Action
- The Tendering Phase: Preparation and Submission of an Offer
- Admission and Evaluation of Offers
- Award and Placing of Contracts
- Debriefing of unsuccessful Tenderers
- Control of the execution of the contract
- Closure of the contract
From the Contracting Regulations one can gain information with regard to Tender process at ESA.
