4 www.esa.int ORG-0001 European Space Agency Keplerlaan 1 Noordwijk 2201AZ NL364 NLD xxxxx Audrey Ferreol 0031715658141 audrey.ferreol@esa.int https://op.europa.eu ORG-0000 Publications Office of the European Union Luxembourg 2417 LU000 LUX PUBL +352 29291 ted@publications.europa.eu 00270502-202677/20262026-04-21+02:00 2.3 eforms-sdk-1.14 18820ca4-ee91-49e2-8b18-034dd1d44e5a 2026-04-20Z 12:53:46Z 01 2026-06-01+02:00 32014L0024 pin-only ENG int-org gen-pub ORG-0001 ted-esen ORG-0000 EuroQCI 1st Generation: System Concept and Preliminary System Definition (Phase A/B1) plus Security Assessment of EU27 Terrestrial QKD Solutions The objective of the activity is to define a preliminary EuroQCI 1st Generation system design compliant with the mission goals, objectives and requirements (proposed by ESA and approved by the EC) within the technical and schedule constraints, including those imposed by SAGA and especially NatQCIs trading-off different options based on a cost-benefit analysis. In terms of level of detail and maturity of the design, the activity will provide consolidated system and system’s components technical and security specifications—with special focus on the orchestrator and the interface and integration with the terrestrial component, while relying on ESA’s SAGA mission as the baseline space component—and will baseline the design specification and interfaces of the components’ constituent elements (excluding SAGA’s) such as trusted nodes of the terrestrial component or software modules of theorchestrator. The activity will also design and implement a reference and validation environment with the necessary tools to validate and verify the feasibility and suitability of the specifications and compliance of the design(s). As per ECSS, the activity will conclude with EuroQCI 1st Generation’s System Requirements Review (SRR) where critical technologies shall be at TRL5 or above. It is also an objective of the activity to establish the security readiness of EU27 QKD industry and terrestrial products to engage in governmental applications involving CLASSIFIED information. supplies 32412100 The Invitation to Tender (ITT) will be published on ESA Star. In order to access to the ITT Package, Tenderers must be registered in esa-star as potential ESA suppliers. Any Tenderer, which is not yet registered with ESA as a potential supplier, must complete the online questionnaire in esa-star, https://esastar-emr.sso.esa.int/. Further information on the registration process can be found in ESA’s INDUSTRY PORTAL available at: - http://www.esa. int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/esa-star_open_for_business - http://www.esa.int/About_Us /Business_with_ESA/How_to_do/esa-star_Registration_Process Please note that esa-star allows two levels of entity registration: “Light” and “Full”. This allows new users wishing to do business with ESA to carry out their registration in two steps. While “Light” registration will grant access to all esa-star services up to and including proposal submission, the award of ESA contracts requires “Full” registration. NL363 NLD PAR-0001 ORG-0001 EuroQCI 1st Generation: System Concept and Preliminary System Definition (Phase A/B1) plus Security Assessment of EU27 Terrestrial QKD Solutions The objective of the activity is to define a preliminary EuroQCI 1st Generation system design compliant with the mission goals, objectives and requirements (proposed by ESA and pproved by the EC) within the technical and schedule constraints, including those imposed by SAGA and especially NatQCIs trading-off different options based on a cost-benefit analysis. In terms of level of detail and maturity of the design, the activity will provide consolidated system and system’s components technical and security specifications—with special focus on the orchestrator and the interface and integration with the terrestrial component, while relying on ESA’s SAGA mission as the baseline space component—and will baseline the design specification and interfaces of the components’ constituent elements (excluding SAGA’s) such as trusted nodes of the terrestrial component or software modules of the orchestrator. The activity will also design and implement a reference and validation environment with the necessary tools to validate and verify the feasibility and suitability of the specifications and compliance of the design(s). As per ECSS, the activity will conclude with EuroQCI 1st Generation’s System Requirements Review (SRR) where critical technologies shall be at TRL5 or above. It is also an objective of the activity to establish the security readiness of EU27 QKD industry and terrestrial products to engage in governmental applications involving CLASSIFIED information. supplies 32412100 NL363 NLD