All products/services of external providers whose cumulative value exceeds 5.000€ shall be provided with details of the procurement source (name of the company, country, number of person-hours quoted and rate/hour, and any major additional cost item quoted in the service). Furthermore, you should specify whether the product is a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) item or not.
External providers with a total cost above 100,000€ 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 of external procurement of non-COTS elements from countries outside of the bidding consortium members’ nations (i.e. in other ESA Member States and/or outside the ESA Member States) will be counted as eligible costs. However, the ESA share of these specific costs will always be 0% (shown in PSSA8 as Company Contribution of the right value under the relevant Work Packages) as InCubed is a guaranteed geo-returned program; this amount can be compensated in other Work Packages (e.g. paid at higher percentage). Anyhow, the total ESA overall price share can never exceed what specified in the Call For Proposal (e.g. 80% for SMEs, 75% for non SMEs). COTS elements will be treated as originating from the nationality of the consortium member.