Expired contract

PS23291 - The Provision of Space Surveillance and Tracking Services Data - LEO and HO - MC

Details

Buyer: UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS
Supplier(s): Spaceflux Ltd, Raytheon Systems Limited
Value: £349,800
Duration: 2 years
Topic: Data services
Published: 22 November 2023
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the Crown Commercial Services - Space-Enabled and Geospatial Services - RM6235 Brief Description of Requirement The UKSA/MOD are seeking to partner with reliable and proven SST data suppliers, with extensive knowledge of space domain awareness, to procure SST data. This supplementary sensor data will be combined with current data sources to improve UK SST capability. The UKSA/MOD seeks to procure SST data which is: • High quality: accurate data on the position, velocity or trajectory of space objects • Timely: responsive sensor collection to data delivery time. • Assured: persistent observations and high data availability per object. The procurement is separated across 2 Civil Lots as follows: - Lot 1: SST data in higher earth orbits (HO) - Lot 2: SST data in lower earth orbits (LEO) Each Lot comprises of: - Routine List-Based Tasking to track UK licensed RSO (Core) - Event-Based Tasking to track UK licensed RSO or secondary space objects posing a hazard to UK RSO. (Optional)

Timeline

Completed: Award date16 October 2023
Completed: Award published22 November 2023
Current notice
Completed: Contract expiry date30 September 2025

About the buyer

UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS is a central government shared services provider whose procurement team runs procurements for public bodies such as UK Research & Innovation. Every competitively tendered procurement runs through the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal, where suppliers register. Lower value opportunities are advertised on Contracts Finder and higher value contracts on Find a Tender. Frameworks hosted by the service, such as one for laboratory consumables, are open to eligible public bodies. Advice on procurement routes and supplier performance sits with the same team. Suppliers to the shared service centre itself have mostly been appointed through Crown Commercial Service frameworks.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

72300000 · Data services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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