September 19, 2018
Bid Notice
< RFP No. KARI-2018-627 >
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) invites sealed bids from eligible Bidder for the Launch
Services of the Cube Satellites.
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 a best qualified bidder who provides a launch service and any other necessary
work for the purpose of launching Cube Satellites into the target orbit.
☞ For further details, please refer to the RFP document.
. Estimated Budget: KRW 600,000,000원 (Tax and other miscel aneous cost included)
. Method of Contract: a limited competitive bid (Contract through Negotiation)
2. Qualification of Bidder
. Bidder shall be qualified under Article 12 (Requirement to Participate in Competitive Tender by Law)
of the ENFORCEMENT DECREE OF THE ACT ON CONTRACTS TO WHICH THE STATE IS A
PARTY.
. Bidders shall be manufacturer of launch vehicle or provider of launch service who has Power of
Attorney established by the manufacturer.
. Bidders shall launch Cube Satellites which includes United States components complying United
States government export license policy and have launch experiences to confirm it.
. 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.
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 September 27, 2018
18:00pm in Korean local time) from the address of this public notice. A registration of intent shall
be made to the address indicated in the RFP by e-mail, post, courier or fax.
. If a Bidder fails to submit the formal letter of intent in time as above, it shall be regarded as non-
participation.
4. 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 24 hour
after the receipt of the package.
. Bid Closing Date and Time: October 4, 2018 15:00PM in Korean Local Time
※ The proposal submitted after the designated date and time shall be considered as invalid.
. KARI will perform the price evaluation within two (2) weeks after the Bid Closing Date.
. Submit: One (1) original, Seven (7) copies of the Proposals, one (1) price proposal, Power of
Attorney (if a Bidder is a provider of launch service) and evidence documents for launch experience.
Two (2) sets of CDs or USBs and bid bond shall be hand-carried or sent via appropriate courier
service to KARI personnel or his designee before the Bid Closing Date and Time. On submission of
proposal by Bidder’s deputy, one (1) power of attorney and a copy of his identification are required
to be presented. In case of any discrepancies between the hard copy and soft copy, the hard copy
shall prevail.
. The Bid currency is KRW (However, other currency can be allowed).
. 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 KRW (However, other currency can be allowed).
. 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
shal 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 shal 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.
. All of the bid bonds will be released promptly at the time of contract award by KARI without interest.
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.
. Acco
rding 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. Top scorer will be the Successful Bidder and the Qualified
Bidders’ rank will be decided in accordance with the ranking of total score (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.
※ Currency shall be applied to the 1st 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. For further details, please refer to the RFP Documents
Contractual matters
Technical matters
Procurement Team
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-Gu,
Daejeon, 34133 Korea
Tel : +82-42-860-2649, Fax : +82-42-860-2666
E-mail : brlee@kari.re.kr (Ba-Ruem Lee)
Future Aerospace Technology Team
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-Gu
Daejeon, 34133 Korea
Tel : +82-42-860-2829
E-mail : wschoi@kari.re.kr (Won-Seop Choi)
