10 www.esa.int ORG-0001 European Space Agency Keplerlaan 1 Noordwijk 2201AZ NL364 NLD ESTEC 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 00089573-202627/20262026-02-09+01:00 2.3 eforms-sdk-1.13 dbb6ec17-e484-4c92-a5c7-77ebc08ca665 fb87bfb9-465d-4ca1-bb22-1367ae61cd88 2026-02-05Z 14:30:22Z 01 32014L0024 pin-cfc-standard ENG int-org gen-pub ORG-0001 ted-esen ORG-0000 epo-procurement-document oth-mult EuroQCI.Standardization Preparation: Open Specification The objective of this activity is to derive two sets of specifications for prepare-and-measure QKD transceivers (quantum, classic, user, monitoring and control interfaces), one for satellite and one for terrestrial application, that will be presented for standardization in a European standardization body as part of the activity. The activity will include an in-depth analysis of the performance and of the security of the two proposed QKD solutions, with a specific focus on the security of the quantum channel. To this purpose, the two sets of specification will consider all known vulnerabilities of QKD systems and provide a dedicated countermeasure for each of them. The strategy to implement these countermeasures will include a complete security proof, quantifying the maximum information leakage considering HW imperfections as defined by the specifications, a set of software and hardware hacking mitigation strategies, in line with the security proof, and a calibration and monitoring procedure to guarantee the correspondence of these values in the actual implementation. The level of detail of the specification will allow the design of the system in a following phase, not covered under this activity. The final goal of the activity is the realization of a QKD system that can withstand all known quantum attack and that also cover potential known vulnerability. This setup will be used as a testbed for performing hacking attempt and potentially discover new vulnerability of QKD systems. To allow for a wide scrutiny of the proposed protocol and the validity of the hacking countermeasures proposed, part of the work will need to be made public. 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 LOT-0001 eu-funds epo-procurement-document none no ORG-0001 https://esastar-publication.sso.esa.int The dates given in this Notice are estimated dates, actual dates are the ones that are published on the tendering tool of the European Space Agency ORG-0001 ENG 2026-03-19+01:00 13:00:00+01:00 required true none none Supplies Supplies supplies 32412100 NL363 NLD 2026-09-06+02:00 2028-03-06+01:00