Legal Basis:
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046
Section I: Contracting authority
I.3)CommunicationAdditional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the abovementioned address
I.4)Type of the contracting authorityEuropean institution/agency or international organisation
I.5)Main activityOther activity: Aviation safety, environment
Section II: Object
II.1)Scope of the procurement
II.1.1)Title:
Horizon Europe Project: Flight Control Laws and Air Data Monitors
Reference number: EASA.2021.HVP.28
II.1.2)Main CPV code73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services
II.1.3)Type of contractServices
II.1.4)Short description:
This call for tender addresses the further development methods for the two following subjects:
— the monitoring and real-time error detection of complex flight control laws (lot 1); and
— the enhancement of detection and tolerance to air data probe complex failure mechanisms (lot 2).
II.1.5)Estimated total valueValue excluding VAT: 1 520 000.00 EUR
II.1.6)Information about lotsThis contract is divided into lots: yes
Tenders may be submitted for maximum number of lots: 2
II.2)Description
II.2.1)Title:
Monitoring of Flight Control Laws
Lot No: 1
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)73100000 Research and experimental development services
73200000 Research and development consultancy services
73300000 Design and execution of research and development
II.2.3)Place of performanceNUTS code: DEA23 Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt
Main site or place of performance:
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The project aims to investigate the introduction of flight control law monitors to detect errors. Potential control law errors should be identified, and their criticality needs to be determined. Multiple monitors to detect such errors should be proposed without taking into account the necessary effort entailed. Main challenges for the use of multiple monitors are:
• the detection is effective when the detection means are sufficiently independent from the item being monitored;
• the independent monitoring needs to be designed with thresholds and confirmation times set not so high as to not trigger when not needed, and also not so low as to lead to spurious detections; and
• it may be difficult from monitoring the aircraft behaviour to determine whether the aircraft response comes from a flight control law error, a normal behaviour in a given phase of the flight, and/or an external perturbation.
II.2.5)Award criteriaCriteria below
Quality criterion - Name: Technical quality / Weighting: 60
Price - Weighting: 40
II.2.6)Estimated valueValue excluding VAT: 760 000.00 EUR
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing systemDuration in months: 24
This contract is subject to renewal: no
II.2.10)Information about variantsVariants will be accepted: no
II.2.11)Information about optionsOptions: no
II.2.13)Information about European Union fundsThe procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: yes
Identification of the project:
II.2.14)Additional information
See internet address provided in Section I.3).
II.2)Description
II.2.1)Title:
Air Data Enhanced Fault Detection and Diagnosis, and Fault-Tolerant Control
Lot No: 2
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)73100000 Research and experimental development services
73200000 Research and development consultancy services
73300000 Design and execution of research and development
II.2.3)Place of performanceNUTS code: DEA23 Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt
Main site or place of performance:
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Several recent safety events have highlighted that common mode sources could affect consistently two or more air data parameters and remain undetected by state-of-the-art individual and consistency cross-checks, resulting in the use of erroneous air data parameters (e.g. airspeed, angle of attack) in the flight control laws.
• Major efforts have been made in the recent years to characterise the icing and environmental conditions air data probes are subjected to during flight and increase the qualification standards;
• However, design or maintenance errors, bird strikes, sand projections, volcanic ashes, etc., are also potential common mode sources, and partial solutions (e.g. efficient in a given flight condition only) have been developed to address those events.
The project aims to further develop the understanding of such failure mechanisms, and to develop solutions. This will improve the EASA certification standards, and support the evaluation of new designs proposed by aircraft manufacturers.
II.2.5)Award criteriaCriteria below
Quality criterion - Name: Technical quality / Weighting: 60
Price - Weighting: 40
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing systemDuration in months: 24
This contract is subject to renewal: no
II.2.10)Information about variantsVariants will be accepted: no
II.2.11)Information about optionsOptions: no
II.2.13)Information about European Union fundsThe procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: yes
Identification of the project:
II.2.14)Additional information
See internet address provided in Section I.3).
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1)Conditions for participation
III.1.2)Economic and financial standingSelection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.1.3)Technical and professional abilitySelection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1)Description
IV.1.1)Type of procedureOpen procedure
IV.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes
IV.2)Administrative information
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participateDate: 09/03/2022
Local time: 11:00
IV.2.3)Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tenderDuration in months: 4 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tendersDate: 10/03/2022
Local time: 14:00
Place:
Information about authorised persons and opening procedure:
See internet address provided in Section I.3).
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrenceThis is a recurrent procurement: no
VI.3)Additional information:
See internet address provided in Section I.3).
VI.4)Procedures for review
VI.4.1)Review bodyOfficial name: General Court of the European Union
Postal address: rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
Town: Luxembourg
Postal code: L-2925
Country: Luxembourg
E-mail:
GC.Registry@curia.europa.euTelephone: +352 4303-1
Fax: +352 4303-2100
Internet address:
http://curia.europa.eu VI.4.3)Review procedurePrecise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
See internet address provided in Section I.3).
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:20/12/2021