ESO Contracts and Procurement
The main responsibility of the Contracts & Procurement Department is to perform price inquiries, preliminary inquiries, calls for tenders, assess the offers and tenders received for their commercial adequacy, coordinate the Contracts Award Committee, place and follow-up the purchase orders and contracts in conformity with the ESO policy.
For information or questions, please contact cp@eso.org.
General Information
The following documents govern the ESO procurement activities:- General Conditions of Purchase Orders, Munich, May 2007
- General Conditions Governing Invitations to Tender and Tenders, Munich, May 2007
- General Conditions of ESO Contracts, Munich, May 2007
- Conditions Governing Calls for Proposals and Contracts for the VLT Instrumentation, Munich, May 2007
Advance Information on forthcoming Calls for Tenders / Preliminary Inquiries exceeding EUR 150.000
- Calls for Tenders / Preliminary
Inquiries announced but not yet issued;
This document lists all calls for tenders expected to exceed 150.000 EUR and/or, when applicable, the preceding Preliminary Inquiries which are scheduled to be issued to companies from the ESO Member States and other selected countries as indicated.
- Calls for Tenders issued from previous Advance Information on forthcoming Calls for Tenders / Preliminary Inquiries (one year reference period).
Specific Projects
- Product Assurance / Quality Assurance Services to be provided in Relation to the ALMA Project (password protected)
- Call for Proposals for Advanced Study of a new Instrument Concept for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) at a firm fixed price of € 100.000
- Supply of Electric Energy to the ALMA Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile (password protected)
- Construction of the ALMA Santiago Central Office (SCO) at the ESO premises in Santiago, Chile (password protected)
- Call for Proposals for Phase A Study at a firm fixed price of € 100.000 for a high resolution, ultra stable spectrograph for the incoherent combined focus of the VLT (password protected)
- Design, Prototype Manufacture, Test and Supply of the Compact Corrective Optics Drive Electronics (C-CODE) for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) at a firm fixed price of € 140.000 (password protected)
- Office Furniture for the Operation Support Facility and the Array Site Operation technical buildings at the Site of the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory (password protected)
- Call for Tenders for Performance of IT Tasks for the Data Management and Operations Division (2009-2012) (password protected)
- Second Call for Proposals for the "Advanced Conceptual Design of the post-focal Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics (LTAO) module for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) at a firm fixed price of 150.000 Euro"
- Technical Concept and Optimization for Industrial Realization, Cost and Schedule, of the M3 Cell and its Handling and Test Facilities for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) at a firm fixed price of € 300.000 (password protected)
- Technical Concept and Optimization for Industrial Realization, Cost and Schedule, of the Prefocal Station and its Handling and Test Facilities for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) at a firm fixed price of € 500.000 (password protected)
- Mirror Coating Units for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) (password protected)