June 24, 2021
Bid Notice
< RFP No. KARI-2021- B20210233>
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) invites sealed bid from eligible Bidders for the KOMPSAT-7A LAUNCH
SERVICES.
The following is an outline of the requirements, so potential Bidders are requested to carefully review the
following instructions and to submit their Proposals in accordance with the guidelines and requirements as
contained in the RFP.
1. Main Scope
- Purpose: KARI seeks best qualified bidders who provide a launch service and any other necessary work for the
purpose of launching KOMPSAT-7A into the target orbit.
- Item: KOMPSAT-7A LAUNCH SERVICES
- Estimated Budget: USD 25,000,000.00
- Method of Contract: a limited competitive bid (Contract through Negotiation)
2. Qualification of Bidder
- Bidder shall have direct knowledge and experience in successfully launching a satellite using a launch vehicle
with performance characteristics capable of launching a satellite as of the Bid Closing Date, and Bidder shall
be in possession of the necessary license, in effect as of the Bid Closing Date, to act as a launch service
provider.
- The proposed launch vehicle model shall have direct launch capability to inject the two thousand (2,000)kg
satellite to 500 ~ 600km altitude circular Sun Synchronous Orbit(SSO). Details can be found in the Request for
Proposal(RFP).
- Either the proposed launch vehicle model shall have at least one(1) successful launch record as of bid closing
date, or the Bidder shall have minimum three (3) firm launch services contracts of the proposed launch
vehicle model whose target launch date is no later than December 1st, 2024.
- In case launch vehicle manufacturer is different from the Bidder, Bidder shall submit the written commitment
from the launch vehicle manufacturer, who are in possession of the necessary license in effect as of the Bid
Closing Date, for the assurance of furnishing the proposed launch vehicle designated for KOMPSAT-7A to the
Bidder. Bidder shall also submit the approval from a relevant government for the use of the launch site and
related launch facilities.
Preliminary evidence documents for the above qualifications shall be sent by e-mail according to Article 9
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(Point of Contact for Bidding) in this Bid Notice when the letter of intent is submitted.
- The proposed launch vehicle shall be able to launch KOMPSAT-7A, which contains U.S and EU member states
export license components and parts, at the proposed launch site. The proposed launch services shall meet
the U.S. and EU member states export control policy.
- The qualifying statement for the above requirements and supporting materials shall be provided in the
Proposal. Additional qualifying evidence may be requested to substantiate Bidder’s claim during the
evaluation.
- The qualification of the Bidders is solely at the proposal evaluation committee’s discretion, and Bidders shall
not raise any objection regarding the proposal evaluation committee’s decision thereupon.
3. Registration of Intent
- Registration: submittal by formal letter of intent
- Bidder shall inform KARI of its intent by a period of two (2) weeks (by July 8, 2021 18:00pm in Korean local
time) to the address of this public notice. A registration of intent shall be made to the address indicated in
the section 9 by e-mail, post, courier or fax.
4. Distribution of RFP and Submittal of Proposal
- Distribution of RFP: KARI will provide the RFP package to Bidder who submitted the formal letter of intent in
time, and the Bidder shall inform KARI of the receipt of the RFP package within twenty four (24) hour after
the receipt of the package.
- Bid Closing Date and Time: August 4, 2021 15:00 Korean Local Time
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The proposal submitted after the designated date and time shall be considered as invalid.
- Two (2) original copies with “ORIGINAL COPY” mark on the cover and ten (10) copies of the Proposal except
for Price Proposal shall be submitted. For the Chapter 7 (Price Proposal), one (1) original Price Proposal
marked with “ORIGINAL COPY” on the cover shall be submitted in a separate envelope. Two (2) USB memory
sticks which contains the electronic files of the Proposal in both PDF format and Microsoft Word format shall
be additionally submitted. Electronic file of the Price Proposal is not required. In case of any discrepancies
between the hard copy and soft copy, the hard copy shall prevail.
- The Bid currency is USD
- The proposal shall be made in English.
5. Bid Bond
- Bidder shall establish a bid bond in favor of KARI before the Bid Closing Date and Time. The total amount of
the bid bond shall be at least five percent (5%) of total bid price and shall be valid for six (6) months after Bid
Closing Date.
- The currency of bid bond is USD.
- The Bid Bond shall be in the form of a surety bond issued by the Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company, in the
form of an irrevocable standby letter of credit or bank guarantee by first class international bank, cash or
other means of gurantee acceptable to KARI. In case of surety bond, it shall be advised through “the Seoul
Guarantee Insurance Company”. In case of cash, bank guarantee, or the irrevocable standby letter of credit, it
shall be advised through “Woori Bank” (Daejeon Branch at 29 Munye-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 35241 Korea, Tel:
+82-42-488-9704, Ext.312, Fax: +82-505-003-0759). The bond shall be available by KARI’s request on the Seoul
Guarantee Insurance Company or by KARI’s draft at sight drawn on the bank, accompanied by the statement
of KARI stating that Bidder has refused to enter into a contract with the terms and conditions in the
Requeste for Proposal as amended, if any, that Bidder has hindered the fair bidding by fraud or
mispresentation, or that Bidder has withdrawn its Proposal after the Bid Closing Date.
- Bid Bond Esatablishment Method and Bid Bond Return shall refer to the Article 2.6 (Bid Bond) in the RFP.
6. Nullification of Bid
- This bidding may be nullified in accordance with Article 39(4) of ENFORCEMENT DECREE OF THE ACT ON
CONTRACTS TO WHICH THE STATE IS A PARTY and Article 44 of ENFORCEMENT RULE OF THE ACT ON
CONTRACTS TO WHICH THE STATE IS A PARTY.
7. Evaluation of Proposal
- Evaluation of technical part: 80 point, evaluation of price: 20 point
- Unless otherwise specified herein, any necessary standards and procedures for the execution of the Contract
shall be in accordance with the “Standards of Execution of Contract by Negotiation” (the Ministry of Strategy
and Finance’s established rules on contracts) and the RFP.
- According to the “Standards of Execution of Contract by Negotiation” and the RFP, both technical part and
price part are evaluated. Through the evaluation of technical proposal, a Bidder who gets score exceeding
eighty five percent (85%) of score in technical part will be selected as Qualified Bidder. After the evaluation
of technical proposal, the Qualified Bidders shall be evaluated by price part. And then, the Qualified Bidders’
technical part evaluation score and bidding price evaluation score are put together. Based on total score, the
ranking of the Qualified Bidders is determined. This evaluation result is submitted to Korean government
for approval, and the Successful Bidder and the ranking of the qualified bidders are formally determined by
Korean government. (if the total score is the same, the Bidder with higher score in technical part is preferred
to others).
- The Qualified Bidders may attend the evaluation of price proposal on the date and time informed by e-mail
and in case a deputy who is designated by Qualified Bidder attends above process, he or she shall submit a
power of attorney letter signed by Qualified Bidder and his/her certified identification to KARI. If Qualified
Bidders or any deputy cannot attend the evaluation of price proposal, a KARI’s employee who is not
connected to this bidding will attend and monitor the evaluation of price proposal.
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Currency shall be applied to the 1
st basic exchange rate of KEB Hana Bank on the date of price
evaluation.
8. Remarks
- The Bidder shall have a full understanding of all matters necessary for this Bidding including the RFP prior to
making a bid and shall be responsible for any and all disadvantages arising from insufficient understanding of
matters necessary for this Bidding.
- Bidder shall prepare the Proposal in truth. In case that any content of the Proposal is founded to be false
later, KARI may terminate or cancel the Contract even after the Contract is concluded.
- All documents submitted in response to the RFP including the Proposal for this Bidding shall not be returned.
- All expenses incurred by Bidder in connection with its Proposal for this Bidding are for its own account and
KARI will not disclose the evaluation result of Bidder’s Proposal.
- If any Bidder is bankrupted or insolvent as of the date of this bid notice, such Bidder shall not be allowed to
participate in this Bidding.
- Bidders are required to keep confidential any data and information acquired in the Contract award. If any
Bidder violates it, such Bidder may assume civil and criminal liability, sanction for inappropriate business
entity, and other disadvantages (such as penalty for security violation, subtraction of evaluation scores in
future biddings, etc.).
- The RFP and Contract shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the Republic of
Korea.
9. Point of Contact for Bidding
Contractual matters
Technical matters
Procurement Team
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu,
Daejeon, 34133, Korea
Attn. : Mr. Ba-Ruem LEE
KOMPSAT-7A
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu,
Daejeon, 34133, Korea
Attn. : Dr. Ho-Hyung LEE
For further details, please refer to the RFP Documents
Tel. : +82-42-860-2649, Fax : +82-42-860-2627
e-mail : brlee@kari.re.kr
Tel : +82-42-860-2811, Fax : +82-42-870-3550
e-mail : hhlee@kari.re.kr
