March 15, 2021
Bid Notice
< RFP No. KARI-2021-0040>
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) invites sealed bid from eligible Bidders for the Technical Services of
KPLO Trajectory Analysis and Flight Operation.
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 Technical Services of KPLO Trajectory Analysis and
Flight Operation
- Item: Technical Services of KPLO Trajectory Analysis and Flight Operation
- Estimated Budget: USD 600,000
- 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 have knowledge and experience in both trajectory analysis and flight operation in this RFP, and
Bidders shall submit documents of proof on their relevant experience(s) in both trajectory analysis and flight
operation in their proposal.
- Bidders shall be in possession of all the necessary licenses, in effect as of Bid Closing Date, required for the
Technical Service of Trajectory Analysis and Flight Operation as described in this RFP.
- 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 Bidders is solely up to the KARI evaluation committee's decision, and unsuccessful Bidders
shall not raise any objection regarding the KARI 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 March 30, 2021 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.
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: April 26, 2021 15:00 Korean Local Time
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The proposal submitted after the designated date and time shall be considered as invalid.
- One (1) original marked with “ORIGINAL COPY” on the cover, and five (5) copies of the Proposal, Two (2) original
Price Proposals marked with “ORIGINAL COPY” on the cover in a separate envelope, Two (2) sets of electronic
files (preferably in Adobe AcrobatTM pdf format) of the Proposal (except the Price Proposal) in the form of CD-
ROM or USB memory stick, 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.
- The Bid currency is USD (However, other currency can be allowed).
- The proposal shall be made in English or Korean.
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 (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 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.
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: 90 point, evaluation of price: 10 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. 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.
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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
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
Attn. : Mr. Ba-Ruem LEE
Tel. : +82-42-860-2649, Fax : +82-42-860-2666
e-mail : brlee@kari.re.kr
Lunar Exploration Program Office
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu,
Daejeon, 34133, Korea
Attn. : Dr. SeungBum Hong
Tel : +82-42-870-3515
e-mail : sbhong@kari.re.kr
Attn. : Dr. Jae-ik Park
Tel : +82-42-870-3976
e-mail : jpark@kari.re.kr
