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Companion summary · 16 slides
General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information
Request for Information
From a surveying network to national positioning infrastructure.
02 / 16Response §2
Tec Solution Pro proposes to operate, modernise and commercialise KSA-CORS as the Authority’s prime partner, while every function that makes the network a national asset remains under GEOSA’s exclusive authority.
What GEOSA keeps
The reference frame, the datum and epoch policy, the observations and archive, data policy and residency, approval of tariffs, service classes and technology specifications.
What we take on
The agreed operational scope, a 24/7 operations centre, measured improvement against an independent baseline, the commercial platform, OEM integration and market development.
How it is funded
The GEOSA-defined baseline supported, where applicable, through an availability-based payment rather than through commercial cross-subsidy. Commercial services funded and carried at the operator’s risk, with revenue shared with the Authority.
How it is proven
A 60 to 90 day validation programme, under GEOSA’s authorisation, would establish the true performance baseline. Its results become the inputs to service levels, investment and the financial model.
Indicative and offered as a basis for discussion. Nothing in this summary is a binding offer; the written response governs.
03 / 16Response §3.1
External commercial services may complement these. They are not substitutes for national observation infrastructure and a nationally governed reference frame.
What the network does not yet have is the layer that turns observations into services a wider market can consume — and that layer is an addition to the existing asset, not a replacement for it.
04 / 16Response §3.1
Nothing sovereign changes. What changes is who the network can serve, and how the service above the baseline is funded.
05 / 16Response §2, §5, §16
The professional survey community already receives the service without charge, and is in any case a limited market. The professional market is materially smaller than the potential machine and device market, and is already served through the existing public service.
The addressable device market is potentially orders of magnitude larger, while the marginal cost of correction generation grows far more slowly than the number of connected devices. That asymmetry, not a tariff on existing users, is where a sustainable commercial model becomes possible.
So the commercial proposition is not to charge for what GEOSA provides free today. It is to build service classes above the public baseline that deliver what the present service is not designed to provide.
Above the baseline
Assured availability · fleet and device management · programmatic provisioning · OEM integration support · usage analytics · integrity information · redundancy
Unchanged
The users, services and quality GEOSA defines as the national public service — scope, eligibility and tariffs remaining entirely the Authority’s policy decision.
06 / 16Response §2, §13.8
Sovereignty is an architectural outcome, not a contractual promise.
Structural
A clause asserting sovereignty is a promise about behaviour. An architecture that computes corrections in the Kingdom, from Saudi observations, on infrastructure GEOSA approves, with the data resident here, does not depend on anyone keeping a promise.
The same logic answers the exit question. Documentation, configuration, calibration records, processing parameters and the observation archive remain the Authority’s, in forms that can be handed to a different operator.
Every sovereign function stays with GEOSA under the recommended structure exactly as it would under any other.
07 / 16Response §3.2
The Authority is examining correction services through a separate request. It is worth being precise about why the two interlock.
The dependency runs in measurable terms
Offered respectfully: whether the Authority awards network operation and correction services together or separately, the arrangements should be written so that they interlock. A correction service is not better than the observations beneath it.
08 / 16Response §9.2, §10, §14
Two transitions at once is one too many. Migrating the platform while the operator changes places two independent sources of risk on a service that government users, licensed surveyors and construction projects depend on every day.
Continuity first
We would assume operations without service discontinuity. GEOSA should not be asked to absorb a platform migration and an operator transition in the same period.
Evidence before capital
An independently measured performance baseline and a station-by-station condition survey come first. Investment is sequenced on measured condition and approved case by case through governance.
Technology neutrality
We name no technology partner in this response. Suppliers would be selected against capability, interoperability, sovereignty, service level and commercial criteria the Authority approves, and any nomination would be subject to GEOSA’s approval.
Measures we can commit to now
These depend on our operations centre, staffing, escalation and reporting discipline rather than on the condition of the estate. The figures are offered as indicative commitments for negotiation and would be confirmed in the partnership agreement.
After the measured baseline
Infrastructure availability targets, restoration times by accessibility band and regional performance commitments follow the validation programme, not this response.
We have not previously operated a national reference station network of this scale, and we state that plainly. The prime role calls for a different capability: integrating specialist technical capability, remaining accountable for the whole service, and building products and markets around the infrastructure.
09 / 16Response §4, §17
Five structures are compared in the response. This is the one we would recommend — a partnership in which the public-service obligation and the commercial opportunity are funded separately.
GEOSA retains
Ownership of the national assets. Control of the reference frame, datum and epoch policy. Ownership of the national GNSS observations and the archive. Data policy, classification and residency. Approval of tariffs and service classes. Approval of technology specifications. All regulatory and sovereign authority.
Tec Solution Pro delivers
Full operation, partial operation, an enhancement layer only, a phased transition or a mixed allocation — subject to the final allocation agreed in the partnership. Operation and maintenance within that scope, a 24/7 operations centre, measured improvement, funding of agreed commercial and modernisation infrastructure, the commercial platform, support to correction services, market development and OEM integration, and the development of Saudi operating capability.
10 / 16Response §4, §6
Under a straightforward concession, the operator must price the uncertainty of the whole scope it assumes — including a baseline the Authority mandates and over whose demand the operator has no influence. That uncertainty appears in the operator’s pricing as a risk premium, and the Authority pays it whether or not the risk materialises.
Separating the two removes that inefficiency. An availability-based payment makes the cost of the national service visible, measurable and auditable. Commercial risk then sits entirely where execution determines the outcome: on the operator, in the market it is asking to be allowed to develop.
The availability payment, the transferred cost base, operator investment and the revenue share should be evaluated together in one financial model rather than negotiated independently. Depending on the final scope, the model may reduce, replace or restructure costs currently borne directly by GEOSA — which can only be established once the existing operations and maintenance cost base is available.
11 / 16Response §5.3
Class A is whatever GEOSA defines as the national public service. Everything above it is a commercial class, within tariffs the Authority approves.
Project-funded densification is the most capital-efficient means of extending a national network: a developer who needs coverage at a particular site pays for the station, and the station joins the national asset. The mechanism asks nothing of the public budget.
12 / 16Response §2.2, §5.4
It is a sequence in which each stage makes the next one possible, and in which the commercial outcome depends on completing all six.
Most operators stop at the second stage, because the first two are the contract and the remaining four are discretionary. The financial case for this partnership rests on the last four being treated as obligations rather than as ambitions.
What is scarce is not the equipment. Receivers, antennas, network software and correction engines can be obtained from qualified technology providers. What is scarce is the party that can assemble them into a coherent sovereign service, build products around it, connect those products to demand across government and the private sector, and carry the commercial risk of doing so.
13 / 16Response §7
A gate tied to a date is not a gate. Periods below are indicative; investment is described in categories rather than amounts.
14 / 16Response §18
A validation programme of 60 to 90 days, conducted jointly with the Authority and entirely under its authorisation, before either party commits to service levels, an investment programme or a financial structure.
Validation A
Authentication and mountpoint availability, correction stream availability and freshness, end-to-end latency including the tail, disconnection and reconnection behaviour, measured by region.
Validation B
How quickly a fault becomes visible, whether a failure is absorbed, recovery time and effort, what secondary infrastructure exists today, communications redundancy and monitoring coverage.
Validation C
State space corrections generated from an authorised observation subset. Tested against representative receivers from more than one manufacturer. Convergence, achieved accuracy and regional differences measured, with attention to southern regions under disturbed ionospheric conditions.
Validation D
A pilot that demonstrates the commercial machinery — provisioning, entitlement, measurement and support — works before it is needed at scale.
All testing would be scoped, scheduled and authorised by GEOSA in advance. We do not propose load testing, stress testing or any activity that would place abnormal demand on production infrastructure. Any concurrency measurement would be derived from the Authority’s own records rather than generated by us, unless the Authority specifically requests and authorises a controlled test.
The value of Validation C is that it establishes performance specific to the KSA-CORS network, to Saudi operating conditions and to representative receiver configurations, rather than relying solely on generic specifications. A correction service specified on measured national performance is one the Authority can rely on.
15 / 16Response §19
Set out plainly, because an arrangement whose requirements emerge during negotiation serves neither party. Each of these determines whether a private party can reasonably carry risk.
Tec Solution Pro is prepared in principle to invest in the commercial infrastructure and agreed modernisation components of the partnership, subject to completion of due diligence, approval of the final business case and agreement of the partnership structure. Evidence of financial standing can be provided at the appropriate stage of the process.
16 / 16Full response
We propose to use the infrastructure GEOSA has already built as the foundation for a Saudi precision positioning ecosystem — while the Authority retains sovereign control of the national asset.
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