Business with ESA

The function of Industrial Ombudsman for ESA has existed since 2000 to guide industry-to-industry relations in ESA procurements, facilitating appeal cases in ESA “Best Practices” and offering mediation in industrial disputes. 

Since 2009, this has included ESA-to-industry relations to enable independent monitoring within the ESA procurement review mechanism, which also involves investigating procedural breach of ESA procurement regulations.

esa-p is the supplier portal for ESA’s contractual partners, with the following main features:

• controlled access and visibility on ESA contracts (contractual, invoicing and payment information) to Prime- and Sub-contractors directly paid by ESA;
• submission and approval of electronic invoices and Milestone Achievement Certificates

This web page contains the help documentation for esa-p: http://esa-p-help.sso.esa.int/

Presentation of the ESA Industry and Intellectual Property Rights by Marco Ferrazzani, Head of ESA Legal Department, 30/03/2015

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

This course is fully booked.

This webinar, focused on compliant PSS-A forms for ESA projects, will take place on 3 November (14:00 - 15:30 CET).

A company participating in an ESA Invitation To Tender (ITT) is required to complete a financial proposal that includes the ESA Procedures, Specification and Standards Forms – known as PSS forms.

ESA PSS forms show cost data and are required under the General Conditions of Tender for ESA Contracts (ESA/REG/001, rev.5, Annex IV).

This course is fully booked. On 29 October (14:30 - 17:00 CET), ESA is offering a webinar on "Compliant Cost Rates and Overheads for ESA projects" aimed at Financial Managers and Project Controllers of industrial entities, especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, wanting to work with ESA. 

--> Please note that the maximum number of participants for this course has been reached. Additional sessions will be offered in the coming months.