To do business with entities, ESA has developed a procedure and an associated ESA Costing Software tool called ECOS for aggregating and calculating the price elements of a financial proposals through the entire contractual chain.

This e-learning module provides access to the ECOS self-training manual and the associated training support files, through a Video training.

ECOS 6, the new version of ECOS is under implementation. Online trainings will be offered free of charge to all companies doing business with ESA.

The ECOS self-training manual has been developed to allow ECOS users to get familiar with software version ECOS 5.3. It is based on a series of hands-on exercises that will allow users to progressively get familiar with the most used features of the application software.

After one day of training, users should be able to:

• configure their own environment;
• enter all data related to financial offers and handled by ECOS;
• define and send ITT files to sub-contractors;
• select/integrate Tender files received from sub-contractors to prepare an Integrated Tender to be sent to the upper tier.

The ESA Cost Engineering Section (TEC-SFC)