Is there a limit on how much external costs I can include?

All products/services of external providers whose cumulative value exceeds 5.000 euros shall be provided with details of the procurement source (Name of the company, country, number of person-hours quoted and rate/hour, detailing any major additional cost item quoted in the service).

External providers with a total cost above 100k euros shall provide their separate, signed PSS forms (A1, A2 and Exhibit A).

It is not allowed to quote hours of external providers of any kind, those costs shall be only listed in exhibit A to PSS-A2.

Costs above 50 k euros outside of the countries of the bidding consortium members (i.e. in other ESA Member States and/or outside of the ESA Member States) shall be authorised by the relevant National Delegation/s.