Ross365
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It could be that they have favourites. I worked for one UK company and we had a really good relationship with the people we worked with at ESA and got a lot of work out them over a long period.
But then they had a time where a group of older staff retired and younger guys came in and things became very bad.
In hindsight, I think for a time we actually had "favoured status" with those old guys and the new people wanted to have their own "friends". Maybe our competitors would have been saying that we were getting work "too easily".
I am sure that the ESA bidding process is subject to "partiality". The fact that when you make a technical proposal, ESA claim IPR on your document is a serious scam.
Later on when I ran my own small business, I got a couple of contracts from ESA, did what I thought was a good job on them, but I got to a point where I completely gave up on trying to get any work out of ESA and transferred our focus from space to aviation, which seemed like a different (and easier) world entirely.
