Satellite Data Procurement

The Space for Smarter Government Programme

(SSGP) resides within the UK Space Agency's Growth

Directorate. It is a national programme, established in

2014, which is designed to stimulate uptake of space

services and data within the UK Public Sector.

The UKSA wishes to acquire access to legacy/archive

high resolution (sub 5 metre) geospatial datasets over

the UK, to be obtained primarily from remote sensing

satellites (EO data), to facilitate ongoing UKSA

activities, including but not exclusive to

• Projects
• Data Challenges
• Application Hackathons

The UKSA require access to high resolution archive

data over the entire UK land mass and coastal/littoral

areas comprising of

• Optical / Multispectral
• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

This Prior Information Notice is being issued in order

to undertake a market consultation exercise with

regards to the requirements detailed above and in

section II.1.4. UKSA will be holding a supplier

engagement day in order to assess the market's

appetite, and view on the approach to procuring the

services. If you believe this is of interest to you

and your organisation, please register an Expression

of Interest to attend by sending an email to the

following email address: majorprojects@uksbs.co.uk

The supplier engagement day will be held in Swindon

Friday 18th May 2018.

Expressions of Interest to attend must

be received at the above email address by no later

than 1200hrs BST on Tuesday 15th May (the EOI

Deadline). Places are limited to two representatives

per organisation. Your email should have the subject

heading "PR18057 UKSA Satellite Data Procurement

PIN EOI" you should include your company name and

the names and contact telephone numbers of up to

two representatives

wishing to attend and the email address(s) for reply

confirmation. Upon confirmation of attendance by

UKSBS, the location and agenda for the day will be

issued. PLEASE NOTE: Due to coordinating access

arrangements, Expressions of Interest received after

EOI Deadline will not be considered and access to the

event will not be possible

UKSA may consider information and responses

received as part of the preliminary market consultation

to help inform UKSA specification and further decision

making in relation to the planning and conduct of the

proposed procurement.

For the avoidance of doubt, this notice is not a Call for

Competition; a Contract Notice will be issued as a call

for competition. Not registering an interest shall not

prevent any supplier participating in a future

procurement, nor is it intended that any information

supplied as part of preliminary market consultation

shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential

procurement process. Participation in preliminary

market consultation will be at each supplier's own

cost. UKSA reserves the position not to award a

contract