The aim of the Contracting Authority of this tender procedure is to conclude in a transparent way a contract with 1 contracting party on the terms and conditions of the Contracting Authority, for the supply to NOVA of 300 Low-Noise amplifiers that shall:

— Cover the operating frequency range of 4.0-8.0 GHz;

— Designed for use in a temperature range of approx. 15-45 °C;

— Be used for at least 15 years at 5 000 m altitude; and;

— Be produced according to a customer supplied User Requirement Specification, URS, with requirements that include low-noise figure, low input and output VSWR, a customer-defined band-pass gain slope and minimum gain, and a low residual gain variation with respect to this customer- defined gain profile.

Part of the project is not only delivery but also qualification of the amplifier manufacturing process and qualification of the reproducibility of the amplifiers.