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DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility Performance Upgrade

DTU-ESA Spherical near-field antenna test facility performance upgrade.

This Contract concerns 0,1 to 60 GHz microwave signal generator and receiver components as well as measurement data acquisition system for the DTU-ESA Spherical near-field antenna test facility. This facility is an European space agency external reference laboratory at the Technical university of Denmark for high-accuracy calibration and measurement of space antenna technology. The deliverables of this Contract are to replace specific existing equipment but must interface to remaining existing equipment and support existing measurement techniques and procedures to achieve the same high measurement accuracy. The focus of this contract is on the technical capability and quality.

DTU has concluded a tender as an open procedure. After the time limit for receipt of tenders expired, DTU had received 2 tenders.

Only the tender from NSI-MI Technologies, LLC was technically capable with the existing equipment. This was expressed when the only other tender failed to meet the requirement put forth by DTU, which specified that “…It is a Minimum Requirement (…) that the following parts of the DTU-ESA Facility measurement system remain and that the deliverables thus interface to these:

A) anechoic chamber including metal screen, absorber lining, and access doors / gates;

B) access balcony, walk paths, personnel lifts, ceiling crane, instrumentation pit;

C) antenna positioner and probe positioner including motors, gears, and slip rings;

D) antenna positioner axes position encoders (Inductosyn encoders from Farrand);

E) control and integration room location of operator instrumentation;

F) processing software based on SNIFTD; DTU has valid license”.

The other company than NSI-MI who submitted a tender made reservations for this requirement, making DTU responsible for the interfacing between of the new equipment and the existing.

Since the interfacing between the new and existing equipment is essential for the continuation of the project, it is assessed that only NSI-MI Technologies, LLC can deliver equipment which interfaces correctly with the existing equipment.

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1) 45 calendar days after the Contracting Authority has published a Contract Award Notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date);

2) 30 calendar days starting the day after the Contracting Authority has informed the tenderers in question, that the Contracting Authority has entered into a contract based on a Framework Agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision;

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