Further to the Invitation To Tender (ITT) released by the European Space Agency (ESA) in July 2017, OHB System AG (Germany) has been selected as Prime Contractor of the PLATO space segment for the Implementation phase (B2/C/D/E1).

Therefore OHB has been authorized to proceed with the “Best Practices” procurement process in order to complete the build-up of the spacecraft industrial team for spacecraft related items. This tendering process will be governed by ESA rules which are reported in the “Best practices for the selection of subcontractors by Prime Contractors in the frame of ESA’s major procurements”. This document can be downloaded from EMITS (http://emits.sso.esa.int/ under “Reference Documentation” and “Administrative Documents”). 

In advance to the announcement on EMITS of the ITTs, the objective of the PID is to present to the European industry the overall PLATO mission, the associated business opportunities, the bidding process and schedule for the build-up of the PLATO spacecraft industrial team.

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