The procurement of Data Warehouse 2 is conducted under the EU – ESA Agreement “Implementation of the Space Component of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)” and is envisaged to be implemented under the new ESA – EU COPERNICUS Agreement. ESA will through the COPERNICUS Space Component Data Access (CSC-DA) coordinate the access to space-based observation data in support of Operational COPERNICUS Services, EU Research Programmes Projects and use by other authorised Users: Institutions and Bodies of the EU, Public Authorities, International Organisations and NGOs, the Public (in general).

The ITT is open to economic entities which have their registered offices in a country which falls within any of the following categories:

• EU Member States; and
• States participating in the GMES Regulation; and
• Participating States in the ESA GMES Space Component Programme.

The open invitation to tender is structured to receive, from each bidder, two separate, self-standing proposals covering two types of activities identified as PART A (Interface Activities) and PART B (Data Provision: Specific CORE datasets/ADDITIONAL Generic datasets).