4CON provides consultancy in the business development area to medium and larger aerospace companies and with companies wishing to enter the space field. We provide an alternative to the services offered by companies specialising in business development in general but whose limited knowledge of space issues hampers their ability to provide insightful space-relevant advice. 4CON is therefore a key partner and consultant for advising commercial companies, investors, financial institutions and investor funds on key issues related to business development in the space area.

In addition, we offer consultancy to companies to help prepare specific proposals in reply to specific space agency Invitations To Tender (ITT’s). The service focuses on provision of technical advice in the areas of technology and system aspects, organisation and writing of the proposal, advice in ensuring compliance with the ITT requirements and finally advice and provision of packaging (design and visualisation etc.) of the proposal. Additional advice in the financial, project management and agency evaluation procedures can also be provided.

4CON also provides advice and consultancy services to newer companies wanting to penetrate the space market, to identify areas in which they could offer new insights and approaches to ESA and the EU and to identify possible strategic alliances with the established space companies. This type of service is also offered to the established companies where they seek to bring new technologies to the space part of their business.

We offer newer and more innovative companies alliance brokering with the more established space companies in order to offer to European space procurement agencies and the larger aerospace contractors strategic alliances which bring together new ideas and established competencies. As an alternative 4CON can provide services to identify and bring together newer and more innovative companies with newer capabilities to challenge the already established aerospace companies. These alliances will offer new technological approaches such as micro-satellites, nano-technologies, automation and robotics and cheaper, faster, better approaches to improve on the way space exploration and exploitation is presently carried out.