BroadGNSS to launch open market consultation

BroadGNSS, a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) action funded by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) under Horizon 2020, is inviting potentially interested bidders to participate in an open market consultation for its upcoming PCP to improve the services that public safety and disaster relief organisations offer to Europe's citizens. BroadGNSS will present the PCP challenge and process at an open market consultation webinar on 2 June 2021. Register here.

The BroadGNSS project started in December 2020 with the aim of procuring R&D services to develop deployable applications for synchronisation and monitoring of critical mobile broadband communication infrastructure and information assets for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) based on EGNOS and Galileo. 

EGNSS-based solutions

In particular, the project is targeting solutions that will enable a European GNSS-based (Galileo and EGNOS) solution for time-synchronisation in public safety organisations’ mission-critical wireless broadband networks, in addition to secure and highly accurate location and navigation information for mission-critical wireless communications equipment. 

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Other solutions could address secure and highly accurate time synchronisation of mission-critical “Internet-of-Public-Safety-Things” and location and navigation information for drone fleet management by public safety organisations, or improve the quality of time synchronisation in their communications networks..

Market Consultation webinar

BroadGNSS is organising an Open Market Consultation (OMC) with potential tenderers and end-users to get feedback from the market about the project’s scope. The OMC will canvass wide stakeholder opinion on the suitability of the BroadGNSS PCP and provide an insight into the market, the state of the art and future developments, enabling the project to prepare an adequate procurement with the right scope.

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The BroadGNSS PCP challenge and process will be presented at an open market consultation webinar on 2 June 2021. You can register to attend here. In addition, EU companies will be invited to fill in an online questionnaire on the BroadGNSS PCP Challenge. The questionnaire will be published on the BroadGNSS website from 2 June 2021 until the end of June 2021. Finally, on 3 November 2021, a Partnering Event will be held to assist companies search for a consortium – stay tuned for more details.

For more information, see the Prior Information Notice here, and a Corrigendum here.

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