Digitalisation in focus: ESA opportunities for industry

Overall, the digital modernisation of the spaceport, also known as the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), is expected to be composed of approximately 40 different projects with a combined budget of between 40–45MEUR. These projects will be divided among the main themes:

1. Technical Support, IT Project Development and Consulting;
2. Infrastructure and Hardware;
3. Operations (satellites and chronology);
4. Maintenance, Repair and Operations;
5. Security and Protection;
6. Communications and People.

On 4 July, ESA and the French Space Agency CNES co-hosted an event at ESA Headquarters to present these digitalisation opportunities to industry. The event focused on the Technical Support aspects (theme 1), whose collective goal is to help CNES to define, organise, and operate the larger digitalisation effort at the spaceport (themes 2–6).

Technical support opportunities

Initial contract opportunities called Intended invitations to tender or IITTs, relate to Technical Support. More details can be found on ESA’s tendering platform, esa-star:

• 22.CSGT.047 - project management and planning - https://esastar-publication-ext.sso.esa.int/nonEsaTenderActions/details/12843
• 22.CSGT.038 - IT Hardware topic - https://esastar-publication-ext.sso.esa.int/nonEsaTenderActions/details/12664
• 22.CSGT.033 - IT Networks topic - https://esastar-publication-ext.sso.esa.int/nonEsaTenderActions/details/12660
• 22.CSGT.046 - IT architecture and urbanization - https://esastar-publication-ext.sso.esa.int/nonEsaTenderActions/details/12844

Resources

Resources which were made available at the 4 July event in Paris are available in the links below:

• Event presentation
• Work packages
• Doing business with ESA and ESA Learning Hub
• CSG Community opt-in form
• Introduction to the CSG (FR)
• Introduction to the CSG (EN)
• Contact cornelius.zund@ext.esa.int to obtain access to the following:
  • Event Q&A
  • Event recording

To find out more about how your company can work with ESA, please submit all queries to cornelius.zund@ext.esa.int.