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1. Buyer
1.1.
Buyer
Official name: European Commission, Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS)
Legal type of the buyer: EU institution, body or agency
Activity of the contracting authority: General public services
2. Procedure
2.1.
Procedure
Title: G2G ENHANCED RADIO FREQUENCY CONSTELLATION SIMULATOR (G2G ERFCS)
Description: The contract should enable functional updates of G2G RFCS and continuous testing to support on demand high priority test (e.g. IOV campaign and IOC). It aims at developing, validating, qualifying and maintaining all ERFCS tools and units that are required to support Galileo engineering for the verification, demonstration and validation of the Galileo Second Generation (G2G) design.
Procedure identifier: 4d6e3a04-66d0-42b3-b822-80d5bb61ec37
Type of procedure: Negotiated without prior call for competition
2.1.1.
Purpose
Main nature of the contract: Supplies
Main classification (cpv): 35631300 Navigation satellites
2.1.2.
Place of performance
Country subdivision (NUTS): Grande Lisboa (PT1A0)
Country: Portugal
2.1.4.
General information
Additional information: The contract awarded for 10 MEUR is split between 5 MEUR (Baseline) and 5 MEUR of options related to extensions.
Legal basis:
Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509
5. Lot
5.1.
Lot: LOT-0001
Title: G2G ENHANCED RADIO FREQUENCY CONSTELLATION SIMULATOR (G2G ERFCS)
Description: The contract should enable functional updates of G2G RFCS and continuous testing to support on demand high priority test (e.g. IOV campaign and IOC). It aims at developing, validating, qualifying and maintaining all ERFCS tools and units that are required to support Galileo engineering for the verification, demonstration and validation of the Galileo Second Generation (G2G) design.
5.1.1.
Purpose
Main nature of the contract: Supplies
Main classification (cpv): 35631300 Navigation satellites
5.1.2.
Place of performance
Country subdivision (NUTS): Grande Lisboa (PT1A0)
Country: Portugal
5.1.6.
General information
Procurement Project fully or partially financed with EU Funds.
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no
5.1.10.
Award criteria
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Description: Understanding of the requirements and objectives (including security). Maturity and qualification status of the proposed solution. Adequacy, soundness and robustness of the proposed design. Compliance to technical requirements
Category of award weight criterion: Weight (decimal, exact)
Award criterion number: 0,3
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Description: Quality and suitability of proposed programme of work and compliance to the Statement of Work. Adequacy of engineering, testing and verification approach and logic. Discussion of problem areas, identification of risks and proposals for risk mitigation.
Category of award weight criterion: Weight (decimal, exact)
Award criterion number: 0,3
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Description: Adequacy of management, costing and planning for the execution of the work.
Category of award weight criterion: Weight (decimal, exact)
Award criterion number: 0,15
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Description: Acceptance of Contract conditions and compliance with administrative Tender conditions with the exception of the subcontracting requirements.
Category of award weight criterion: Weight (decimal, exact)
Award criterion number: 0,05
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Description: Compliance with subcontracting requirements.
Category of award weight criterion: Weight (decimal, exact)
Award criterion number: 0,05
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Description: Adequacy and appropriateness of human and technical resources, Key personnel and facilities proposed by the Tenderer with respect to the technical and programmatic solution described in the proposal.
Category of award weight criterion: Weight (decimal, exact)
Award criterion number: 0,15
5.1.15.
Techniques
Framework agreement:
No framework agreement
Information about the dynamic purchasing system:
No dynamic purchase system
5.1.16.
Further information, mediation and review
Review organisation: General Court of the European Union
Organisation providing more information on the review procedures: European Commission, Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS)
Organisation signing the contract: European Commission, Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS)
6. Results
Value of all contracts awarded in this notice: 10 000 000,00 EUR
Direct award:
Justification for direct award: The contract can be provided only by a particular economic operator because of an absence of competition for technical reasons
Other justification: Pursuant to Financial Regulation Annex 1, point 11.1 (b)
6.1.
Result lot identifier: LOT-0001
Winner selection status: At least one winner was chosen.
6.1.2.
Information about winners
Winner:
Official name: GMVIS SKYSOFT SA
Tender:
Tender identifier: GMVIS_PROPOSAL
Identifier of lot or group of lots: LOT-0001
Value of the tender: 10 000 000,00 EUR
Subcontracting: Yes
Subcontracting value is known: yes
Value of subcontracting: 1 774 000,00 EUR
Subcontracting percentage is known: yes
Percentage of subcontracting: 34
Contract information:
Identifier of the contract: G2G ENHANCED RADIO FREQUENCY CONSTELLATION SIMULATOR (G2G ERFCS)
Date on which the winner was chosen: 28/11/2025
Date of the conclusion of the contract: 22/12/2025
Information about European Union funds:
Name of EU-financed project or programme: European Space Programme (2021/2027)
Organisation signing the contract: European Commission, Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS)
6.1.4.
Statistical information
Received tenders or requests to participate:
Type of received submissions: Tenders
Number of tenders or requests to participate received: 1
8. Organisations
8.1.
ORG-0001
Official name: European Commission, Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS)
Registration number: EUCOM_C2
Department: DEFIS.C.2 – Satellite Navigation
Postal address: Avenue d'Auderghem 45
Town: Brussels
Postcode: 1049
Country subdivision (NUTS): Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad (BE100)
Country: Belgium
Telephone: +32 2 299 11 11
Roles of this organisation:
Buyer
Organisation providing more information on the review procedures
Organisation signing the contract
8.1.
ORG-0003
Official name: General Court of the European Union
Registration number: CJEU
Postal address: Rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
Town: Luxembourg
Postcode: L-2925
Country subdivision (NUTS): Luxembourg (LU000)
Country: Luxembourg
Telephone: 352 43031
Roles of this organisation:
Review organisation
8.1.
ORG-0004
Official name: GMVIS SKYSOFT SA
Size of the economic operator: Medium
Registration number: VAT Reg PT504076418
Postal address: Alameda dos Oceanos, 115
Town: Lisboa
Postcode: 1990-392
Country subdivision (NUTS): Grande Lisboa (PT1A0)
Country: Portugal
Telephone: +351 308801495
Roles of this organisation:
Tenderer
Winner of these lots: LOT-0001
8.1.
ORG-0000
Official name: Publications Office of the European Union
Registration number: PUBL
Town: Luxembourg
Postcode: 2417
Country subdivision (NUTS): Luxembourg (LU000)
Country: Luxembourg
Telephone: +352 29291
Roles of this organisation:
TED eSender
10. Change
Version of the previous notice to be changed: 810974-2025
Main reason for change: Information now available
Notice information
Notice identifier/version: 3443160a-27c6-4a35-b457-9c5a97d5af0f - 01
Form type: Result
Notice type: Contract or concession award notice – standard regime
Notice subtype: 29
Notice dispatch date: 09/01/2026 17:00:21 (UTC+00:00) Western European Time, GMT
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Notice publication number: 19810-2026
OJ S issue number: 8/2026
Publication date: 13/01/2026