June 7, 2023
Bid Notice
< KARI-2023-B20230288-00 >
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) invites sealed bids from eligible Bidders for the development of the
Antenna Assembly (ATA) for the Compact Advanced Payload with C-SAR (CAP-C) for KARI’s Compact Advanced
Satellite 500-5 (CAS500-5).
The following is an outline of the requirements, and 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 Request for Proposal (RFP).
1. Main Scope
- Item: The Antenna Assembly (ATA) for the Compact Advanced Payload with C-SAR (CAP-C) for KARI’s Compact
Advanced Satellite 500-5 (CAS500-5)
- Estimated Budget: KRW 18,000,000,000
- Method of Contract: a limited competitive bid (Contract through Negotiation)
2. Qualification of Bidder
- Bidders 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 of Republic of Korea.
- Bidders shall have direct/indirect knowledge and first-hand experience in designing, manufacturing,
integrating, and testing of ATA for airborne or space-borne image taking payload purposes as described in the
RFP. Bidders shall submit documents of proof on their relevant experience(s) in the development of Time
Synchronization Payload in their proposals. Bidder shall have at least five (5) years of experience in the above
fields as a prime contractor.
- Bidders shall be in possession of all the necessary certificates, permit, authorization, licenses, in effect as of the
Bid Closing Date and up to the completion of the procurement.
- The qualifying statement for requirements and supporting materials shall be provided in the proposal.
Additional qualifying evidences 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.
- The Bidder who submits a price proposal that exceeds the estimated price announced on the Bid Notice will
not be considered as Qualified Bidders in the price evaluation.
3. Registration of Intent
- Registration: submittal by formal letter of intent with proof of qualification
- A Bidder shall inform KARI of its intent within a period of one (1) week (by June 14, 2023, 6:00pm in Korean
local time) at the address provided in this bid notice. A registration of intent shall be made to the contact
information indicated in this notice by e-mail, registered post, courier or fax.
4. Distribution of RFP and Submittal of Proposal
- Distribution of RFP: KARI will provide the RFP package by e-mail to Bidders who submitted their formal letter
of intent in time, and the Bidder shall inform KARI of the receipt of the RFP package within twenty-four (24)
hours after the receipt of the RFP package.
- Bid Closing Date and Time: July 19
, 2023 16:00 Korean Local Time
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The proposal submitted after the designated date and time shall be considered as invalid.
- Proposals i) in hard copies in A4 size (For Proposal except for the price information – seven (7) copies in
addition to one (1) original; For price proposal – Two (2) original proposals) and ii) in soft copies (two (2) sets of
readable documents (PDF preferred) in USBs without price proposal) shall be submitted along with the bid
bond, by hand-delivery or 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 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 KWR (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 Banking center at 29 Munye-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 35241 Korea, Tel:
+82-42-488-9704, Ext.312, Fax: +82-505-003-2964, e-mail: efu0467@wooribank.com). 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 the Bidder has refused to enter into a contract with
the terms and conditions in the Request for Proposal as amended, if any, that the Bidder has hindered fair
bidding by fraud or mispresentation, or that the 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. 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). Notwithstanding the
technical part evaluation, the bidders who propose price exceeding the estimated budget shall not be
considered as Qualified Bidder.
- 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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The exchange rate to be applied to the price evaluation will be 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 executed.
- 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
Overseas Contracts Office
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu,
Daejeon, 34133, Korea
Attn. : Ye-Seul KIM (Ms)
Tel. : +82-42-860-2613
Fax : +82-42-879-4370
e-mail : yeseulkim@kari.re.kr
Satellite Payload Research & Development Division
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu,
Daejeon, 34133, Korea
Attn. : Sang Burm RYU (Mr.)
Tel : +82-42-860-2747
Fax : -
e-mail : sbryu11@kari.re.kr
