Framework agreement regrading support services for BMK and FFG in their role as coordinator of European collaborations in the area of RTI (particularly, the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) and the Joint Programming Platform ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems (JPP SES) and monitoring national RTI priorities (particularly energy transition). Regarding the contract value of the framework agreement: the maximum call-off volume amounts to 800 person months for all services regarding European funding initiatives and EUR 3 million for national RDI-initiatives. In total, the maximum contract volume is therefore around EUR 13 million (depending on which persons are deployed at which hourly rates for the maxium 800 person-months). The maximum call-off volume includes a buffer and does not have to be fully exhausted.