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

Industrial Liaison Officers Contact Details

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
  • Annex 1: General Conditions Governing Invitations to Tender and Tenders, Munich, May 2007
  • Annex 2: General Conditions of ESO Contracts, Munich, May 2007
  • Annex 3: Copy of the ESO Multilateral Protocol
  • Annex 4: Policy for Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO)

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

• Call for Tenders for Transport Services between Arturo Merino Benitez Airport and Santiago (Password Protected)
• Call for Tenders for Guards Services in Vitacura (Password Protected)
• Call for Tenders for Fuel Supply for La Silla Paranal Observatory (Password Protected)
• Call for Tenders for Civil Work as part of the Modification of the Technical Building of the Operation Support Facilities (OSF) of ALMA Observatory. (Password Protected)
• Call for tender for the Construction of 4 Antenna Foundations located in the so called AEM and MELCO areas at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) of the Atacama Large Milimeter /Sub Milimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory project, near San Pedro de Atacama and Toconao, II Region , Chile (password protected).
• Call for Tender for Personnel Transport Services for ALMA (password protected)
• Call for Tender for Architectural Design of all Areas and Facilities, and a Design Concept for Exhibitions for a Visitors Centre for the La Silla Paranal Observatory of the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) at Mount Paranal (password protected)
• Call for Tender for Construction of the Pavement System for the Access Road of the ALMA Observatory from its intersection with 23-CH to the OSF and AOS sites (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)
• Procurement of the EVALSO Optical Infrastructure (password protected)
• Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Study of the Secondary Mirror Unit for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) at a firm fixed price of EUR 1.500.000 (password protected)
• Ridge Interface Plates of the Antenna Station for ALMA (password protected)
• IT Service and Project Support (ISPS) in Germany and Chile (password protected)