EDIP common procurement call: C5ISR and other space-related products (EDF-EDIP-P-2027-FNLC-CPA-C5ISRS)

Expected Impact:
The results of the activities should contribute to support common procurement, leading to strengthening the cooperation among Member States and associated countries, as well as to greater interoperability. Furthermore, they should contribute to should contribute to the development and reinforcement of C5ISR and space-related products of the participants.
Objective:
The results of the activities should contribute to support common procurement, leading to strengthening the cooperation among Member States and associated countries, as well as to greater interoperability. Furthermore, they should contribute to the development and the procurement of common platforms and subsystems.
Scope:
Common procurement actions under this topic shall consist of activities related to the cooperation of legal entities in the procurement of C5ISR or other space-related defence products and systems, at any point in the life cycle of such defence products, including for the purpose of establishing, managing and maintaining defence industrial readiness pools.
To achieve the expected impact, the estimated value of a common procurement proposed for actions under this topic shall be at least EUR 20 000 000 aiming to commonly procure defence products to fill the capability gaps and reinforce cooperation among Member States and associated countries. The procurement shall be based on a binding agreement to be signed by the participating Member States and associated countries with a procurement agent appointed by those Member States and associated countries. Such procurement agent may be contracting authorities of Member States or associated countries, the European Defence Agency (EDA), a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP) or other international organisation, including the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) or the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA). The cooperation shall be newly created in the context of the application to the call topic or based on an existing framework, provided that the activities under such cooperation framework did not start before 5 March 2024 and have not been completed before the signature of the grant agreement. Eligible actions are common procurement of systems or variants of systems. The common procurement can be organised as a framework contract.
Actions shall be completed no later than 31 December 2033.

Conditions:
Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in section 5 of the
call document
.
Proposal page limits and layout:
described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible countries
described in section 6 of the
call document
.
3. Other eligibility conditions
described in section 6 of the
call document
.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in section 7 of the
call document
.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described section 8 of the
call document
and the
Online Manual
.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in section 9 of the
call document
.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in section 4 of the
call document
.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in section 10 of the
call document
.
Call document and annexes:
Call document
Application form templates
Application Form (EDIP and USI)
Calculator (EDIP CPA LS)
Participant Info (EDIP and USI)
List of Infrastructure, facilities, assets and resources (EDIP and USI)
Ownership Control Declaration
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
EDF, ASAP, EDIRPA, EDIP and USI Lump Sum MGA
Additional documents:
EDIP Work Programme
EDIP Regulation 2025/2643
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement