The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has announced a tender for UAV services for its Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. The Invitation to Bid will expire on 9 October 2015.

The scope of monitoring services by UAVs will include but not be limited to area patrolling along borders, point surveillance at specific border crossing points, protection of OSCE personnel, and other surveillance tasks as assigned within the scope of the mission’s mandate (e.g. gathering information on the security situation, detecting the presence of vehicles and military type equipment, monitoring the regime of cessation of the use of weapons, monitoring the prohibition on the installation or laying of mines, etc.).

OSCE had assigned in August 2014 Schiebel with the provision of UAV services. Under that month-to-month agreement the organization used two systems of four unmanned S-100 camcopters each. Two camcopters have crashed and one was shot during operations at the Donbas region.