Eligibility criteria

General eligibility criteria to participate in the SysNova initiative are the following:

• The bidder shall respond to one or more Technical Challenges proposed in the related OSIP Campaign with novel concepts (i.e. the solution should not have been the subject of a previous ESA work).
• Use of any facilities in industry, universities and research institutes is allowed but material costs should not exceed 10% of total budget.
• Each key personnel and their organisational unit can participate to only one study team. Key personnel from different organisational units of the same entity can participate in separate studies.
• Large Systems Integrators (LSI) may act as contract prime if at no cost to the Agency, or may be subcontractors providing specialised support, but not both at the same time.
• The study team shall be composed of experts from both research or academic institutions and industry.
• Challenge Responses shall not exceed 20 pages in length, including abstract, technical description and discussion, diagrams and pictures. In addition, up to 3 pages shall be dedicated to the travel and subsistence expenses plan and the presentation of the team (10 additional pages are allowed for attachments i.e. CVs, reference to research papers etc.).
• Challenge Responses shall include a first iteration of the full work (described in the related Campaign Description) plus a presentation of the team institutions, members and respective roles in the study. The proposals shall be structured following the contents of the technical notes described in the related Campaign Description.
• The proposing team shall confirm their availability for discussion during a Final Review at ESTEC, in the event that one of the concepts in the Challenge Response is selected for further definition work towards a Challenge Analysis.

Proposals not complying with these criteria will not be accepted for evaluation.