CDSE ONBOARDING FOR COMPLEMENTARY DATASETS

prior information notice

Prospective

The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) continues to expand its portfolio by onboarding new, high value Earth observation data that further strengthen the platform’s scientific, operational, and analytical capabilities. Within this context, the objective of this procurement is to ensure the full integration of three additional families of datasets into the CDSE, building on its open, cloud based, and extensible architecture. The scope of the activity covers the complete end to end onboarding lifecycle, including data preparation, automated ingestion, metadata extraction and harmonisation, catalogue publication, and access enablement through scalable and standardised interfaces. All onboarded content shall be made discoverable and accessible via the existing CDSE catalogue services, ensuring consistency, traceability, and interoperability with the broader service data offer. The activity will further enhance user experience across the ecosystem by enabling thematic visualisation capabilities, detailed data exploration features, and advanced data processing capabilities. Interoperability and alignment with existing CDSE components are key elements of the scope. The selected Contractors shall contribute to the harmonisation of data models, catalogue structures, and service interfaces, ensuring compliance with CDSE operational set-up. Close coordination with CDSE engineering teams will be required to ensure that onboarding solutions are reusable, maintainable, and extensible for future evolution of the platform. Operational aspects form an integral part of the activity. This includes the validation and demonstration of the onboarding solutions, the provision of comprehensive technical and user oriented documentation, and the establishment of monitoring, maintenance, and support processes to ensure reliable and continuous availability of the onboarded data and services. All activities shall be performed in compliance with a defined set of security, governance, and environmental sustainability requirements. The Invitation to Tender (ITT) 1-13201 (Proc Id. H3/2025/001) will be published on ESA Star Publication: https://esastar-publication.sso.esa.int/. In order to access the ITT Package from esa-star, Tenderers must be registered 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 on the Doing Business with ESA portal: https://doing-business.sso.esa.int/. Please note that esa-star allows two levels of entity registration: “Light” and “Valid 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 “Valid Full” status.

Italy

TED Europa

Tender

Commercial