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OpenStage · planning

UK Space Agency

National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC): Optical Sovereign Sensor Software (OSSS)

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£1.5m
Deadline
Published3 Feb 2026
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£1.5mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

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The brief

UKSA has recently begun the hardware deployment of our Space Domain Awareness optical tracking stations.

To operate these effectively, we require software that will enable the autonomous, remote and safe tasking of the sensors and their supporting hardware, with calibrated and corrected high-quality data returned to the central NSpOC wide C2 system (BOREALIS) via an API.

Suppliers will be required to deliver three high level elements whose architecture and interfaces must be appropriately documents - a Microsoft Azure based sensor network C2 system, an on-premises C2 and hardware safety system and a separate optical processing pipeline that will generate the tracking/pointing and hardware instructions to execute the sensor sessions and return calibrated and corrected satellite tracklets.

UKSA will require the successful supplier to utilise the existing hardware manufacturer provided sof…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Suppliers will be required to deliver three

Suppliers will be required to deliver three high level elements whose architecture and interfaces must be appropriately documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-061511
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
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Buyer ref
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