The ESA Contracts Department
The Contracts Department is responsible for all procurement related aspects, such as:
- the preparation and implementation of Tender Actions through Invitations-To-Tender (ITT), Requests-For-Quotation (RFQ), Calls for Proposals, Contracts, Cooperative Agreements and Purchase Orders in line with the Agency's industrial policy and the subsequent participation of the contract management up to its closure,
- the implementation of industrial policies,
- the elaboration of procedures and methods,
- the interpretation and application of Tendering rules,
- the definition of Best Practices, (NON-ESA Tender Actions)
- the relation with the ESA Industrial Ombuds,
- contracts with external customers (Third Party Activities) for the use of ESA services and facilities.
The department also deals with Tender Actions to be performed in the frame of activities entrusted to the Agency by other funding institutions (such as for example the EU, Eumetsat).