Lessons learnt from The Galileo Concession
- Paper number
IAC-08.E3.3.4
- Author
Mr. Jean-Claude Dardelet, Thales Alenia Space, France
- Year
2008
- Abstract
Galileo is the European flagship program of the European Union. In 1999, the European Commission launched its “call for expression of interest for the implementation of a PPP for Galileo”. After intense discussions, the decision was taken that Galileo would be deployed and exploited within the frame of a Concession. A competitive process started in 2003 and a consortium was pre-selected to carry-out this first ever Concession of the European Union. Quantities of experts from both Public and Private sides have been involved in the competitive dialogue between the Galileo Joint Undertaking and the selected Consortium. In April 2007, almost 4 years after the competition started, the European Commission decided to cancel the Concession process. A few months later was finally approved that the funding would exclusively come from the European Union budget within the Financial Perspectives 2007-2013. At the date of the IAC 2008 Congress, a new program governance, organization and procurement process is in place, but the question on how Galileo (and EGNOS, the European regional complement to GPS) will be managed and operated in the future is still in the air. In his presentation, the Author intends to highlight insights of the Concession discussions, reasons of the failure and before all, underline the lessons learnt of these unprecedented discussions. At stake is the ability of the European Union to carry-out large infrastructure programs in the future.
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