Collection management, and what an intelligence requirement actually asks for
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance procurement is best read from the requirement backwards. A buyer states an information need -- what must be known, about what area, to what confidence, how often, and how quickly the answer must arrive -- and the acceptable solution is whatever meets it. That framing is deliberate: it lets an airborne sensor, a ground sensor network, a commercial imagery subscription or an analysis service compete for the same requirement, and it makes revisit rate and timeliness as important as resolution.
Service-based provision has grown to sit alongside equipment purchase. Buyers contract for collection delivered as a service -- flying hours, imagery tasking, persistent monitoring of a defined area -- which moves platform ownership, crewing, maintenance and obsolescence to the supplier and prices the capability by what is actually collected. The commercial terms then concern tasking priority, guaranteed availability windows, weather and serviceability exclusions, and what happens when the buyer's need and the supplier's other customers collide.
Handling the product is as specified as collecting it. Classification and releasability of derived material, retention periods, the accreditation of the systems the material is processed on, and the clearances held by analysts are all conditions of the contract, and they constrain where work may be performed. Interoperability is written in terms of recognised formats and metadata so that collected material can be exploited by tools the buyer already owns, which is the requirement most often omitted and most expensive to add afterwards.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys isr and surveillance in France?
GlobalGov holds 334 isr and surveillance records from 300 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Office de l'eau de la Guyane (4 records); Adm76 (3 records); Conseil Départemental Du Nord (3 records); Grand Port Maritime Guadeloupe (3 records); Mairie Tours (3 records); Amiens Métropole (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 5.4% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Office de l'eau de la Guyane | 4 | 1.2% |
| Adm76 | 3 | 0.9% |
| Conseil Départemental Du Nord | 3 | 0.9% |
| Grand Port Maritime Guadeloupe | 3 | 0.9% |
| Mairie Tours | 3 | 0.9% |
| Amiens Métropole | 2 | 0.6% |
What are isr and surveillance contracts worth in France?
134 of the 334 records publish a contract value. The median is $829,307 and the largest single published value is $3.0B. By size, 6 under $100k, 61 between $100k and $1M, 59 between $1M and $10M, 8 above $10M. The remaining 200 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 6 | 4.5% |
| between $100k and $1M | 61 | 46% |
| between $1M and $10M | 59 | 44% |
| above $10M | 8 | 6.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to isr and surveillance tenders in France?
Across the 203 France isr and surveillance notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 33 days. A quarter of them allowed 30 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 4 (2.0%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are isr and surveillance tenders published in France?
France publishes about 18 notices a month in this category, 218 in the last twelve months. That is 354% more than the 48 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 333, spread across 23 separate months of activity since 5 October 2021. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does France compare with other isr and surveillance markets?
Among the 8 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable isr and surveillance market, France ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within France itself, isr and surveillance is the 65th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the France isr and surveillance records on this page come from?
These 334 records are collected from 2 official sources: BOAMP (253), TED (81). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Open ISR and Surveillance tenders in France
Showing 2 of the 2 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the France market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
France – Telemetry equipment – SYSTEME DE QUALIFICATION DES FOURNISSEURS : RENOUVELLEMENT DU MATERIEL TEX (RTU + CAPTEURS)
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