C5ISR and other space-related products
Common procurement of C5ISR and space-related defence products to enhance cooperation and interoperability among EU Member States and associated countries.
This call supports joint procurement of C5ISR and space-related defence systems to strengthen cooperation among EU Member States and associated countries. Projects must involve a binding agreement and a procurement agent. The minimum procurement value is EUR 20 million, with activities completed by end of 2033.
Likely relevant for
- Defence industry companies
- Procurement agencies
- Consortia of EU Member States and associated countries
- Organisations involved in C5ISR and space defence systems
Project signals
What it funds
- Common procurement of C5ISR and other space-related defence products and systems
- Activities at any lifecycle stage of defence products
- Establishment and management of defence industrial readiness pools
Expected outcomes
- Strengthened cooperation among Member States and associated countries
- Greater interoperability of defence systems
- Development and procurement of common platforms and subsystems
Who can apply / participate
- Legal entities from Member States and associated countries
- Procurement agents including contracting authorities, EDA, SEAP, OCCAR, NSPA
- Cooperation must be newly created or based on frameworks started after 5 March 2024 and not completed before grant signature
- Participants must be from EU Member States or associated countries as per call document
- Minimum estimated procurement value of EUR 20 million
- Binding agreement required among participating states and procurement agent
- Specific eligible countries and entities details to be confirmed in call document section 6
Must check before shortlisting
- Eligibility of countries and entities per call document section 6
- Compliance with minimum procurement value of EUR 20 million
- Binding agreements and appointed procurement agent details
Money
EUR 150 million budget allocated for this call in 2027, supporting lump sum grants for common procurement actions.
- Total budget for 2027 — 150000000EURAllocated for EDF Lump Sum Grants under this topic
Application notes
- Single-stage submission model.
- Proposal page limits and layout as per call document section 5 and application form Part B.
- Eligibility and admissibility conditions detailed in call document sections 6 and 7.
- Evaluation criteria and award process described in call document sections 8 and 9.
- Legal and financial setup governed by call document section 10 and model grant agreements.
- Prepare proposal following call document and application form templates.
- Ensure compliance with eligibility and admissibility criteria.
- Submit proposal before deadline 16 February 2027 via Funding & Tenders Portal.
- Cooperation frameworks must not have started before 5 March 2024 or completed before grant signature.
- Procurement agent must be appointed and binding agreement signed by participants.
- Minimum procurement value of EUR 20 million must be met.
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Official source text
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Topic description
Expected Impact: The results of the activities should contribute to support common procurement, leading to strengthening the cooperation among Member States and associated countries, as well as to greater interoperability. Furthermore, they should contribute to should contribute to the development and reinforcement of C5ISR and space-related products of the participants. Objective: The results of the activities should contribute to support common procurement, leading to strengthening the cooperation among Member States and associated countries, as well as to greater interoperability. Furthermore, they should contribute to the development and the procurement of common platforms and subsystems. Scope: Common procurement actions under this topic shall consist of activities related to the cooperation of legal entities in the procurement of C5ISR or other space-related defence products and systems, at any point in the life cycle of such defence products, including for the purpose of establishing, managing and maintaining defence industrial readiness pools. To achieve the expected impact, the estimated value of a common procurement proposed for actions under this topic shall be at least EUR 20 000 000 aiming to commonly procure defence products to fill the capability gaps and reinforce cooperation among Member States and associated countries. The procurement shall be based on a binding agreement to be signed by the participating Member States and associated countries with a procurement agent appointed by those Member States and associated countries. Such procurement agent may be contracting authorities of Member States or associated countries, the European Defence Agency (EDA), a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP) or other international organisation, including the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) or the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA). The cooperation shall be newly created in the context of the application to the call topic or based on an existing framework, provided that the activities under such cooperation framework did not start before 5 March 2024 and have not been completed before the signature of the grant agreement. Eligible actions are common procurement of systems or variants of systems. The common procurement can be organised as a framework contract. Actions shall be completed no later than 31 December 2033.
Conditions and documents
Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in section 5 of the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible countries
described in section 6 of the call document.
3. Other eligibility conditions
described in section 6 of the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in section 7 of the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in section 9 of the call document.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in section 4 of the call document.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in section 10 of the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Application form templates
Application Form (EDIP and USI)
Participant Info (EDIP and USI)
List of Infrastructure, facilities, assets and resources (EDIP and USI)
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
Support information
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Raw budget overview
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