Ground and naval platforms and systems
2nd call for proposals for common procurement actions under the Programme · EDF-LS · Needs partners
What this call funds
This EU Defence Fund call supports groups of countries jointly buying ground and naval military platforms and systems, such as armoured vehicles, artillery, tanks, soldier systems, and surface or underwater naval vessels. The goal is to help EU Member States and associated countries cooperate on defence procurement, improve interoperability, and build shared industrial capacity. Common procurement projects funded here must be worth at least 80 million euros and run through a binding agreement between participating countries and a procurement agent.
defence security
Who wins this
This call best suits consortia of national defence procurement agencies or authorities from multiple EU Member States or associated countries, working through a procurement agent such as EDA, OCCAR, or NSPA, to jointly buy large-scale ground or naval defence platforms.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Funding model
- EDF-AG-LS
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- EDF Lump Sum Grants
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: from 2 countries.
- Eligible applicants
- public body
- Also required
- The estimated value of the common procurement must be at least EUR 80,000,000, based on a binding agreement between participating Member States/associated countries and a procurement agent (e.g. EDA, SEAP, OCCAR, NSPA); actions must be completed by 31 December 2033 and cooperation frameworks must not have started before 5 March 2024.
- Sectors
- Defence · Aerospace · Cybersecurity
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in section 5 of the call document. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in section 6 of the call document. 3. Other eligibility conditions described in section 6 of the call document. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in section 7 of the call document. 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual. 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in section 9 of the call document. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in section 4 of the call document. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in section 10 of the call document. Call document and annexes: Call document