Call for tenders' details
Status
Submission date
04/05/2018
Answer date
08/05/2018
Language
Status
Answered
Question details
Subject
EN-03 Tender Specifications Appendix 1 Technical Specifications. Chapter 1.1.1
Question
During the set-up phase, the SATCOM capacity provision must be made available to the RPAS Services Providers in order to conduct all the necessary configuration tests. Moreover, prior to the start of the first RPAS operations a minimum of 100 flight hours are compulsory to guarantee the readiness of the system, SATCOM provision shall be granted for all the test flights requiring BRLOS communications. In order to consider the cost of the SATCOM capacity during test phase in our financial offer, we would appreciate to know the duration of this tests (number of days).
Answer
08/05/2018
The minimum of 100 flight hours is an estimation in order to guarantee the readiness of the system, not all the flight hours involve BRLOS communications, this is just intended to guarantee that the RPAS system (payload, communications systems, avionics, etc.) is ready to start operations. However this should be conducted just once before the start of the operations (first Specific Contract (SC)), for the rest of the SCs just an operational briefing at the operations site will be held before the start of each RPAS operations, the duration of this operational briefing will be one or two days and it could be also done after activation of module_02 (capacity provision).