Development of a Delft FEWS Platform for the Flood Forecasting Centre at Met Éireann

Description

Met Éireann intend to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a framework agreement for the development, installation, support, and hosting of a FEWS Integrator for the Flood Forecasting Centre. The framework agreement will be established on foot of this tender competition/a competition for an initial contract for the development of a Delft-FEWS platform in an operational setting, integrating data management and forecasting tasks for several larger catchments (hereafter referred to as Hydrometric Areas) into a National Scale Flood Forecasting system. The working platform must facilitate flood forecasting at both a National and Catchment level. The tender will be required to integrate 3rd party hydrological model software into the Delft-FEWS platform. The platform will be cloud based and be geo-resilient. During the competition the mechanism for appointing the successful tenderer was changed from a framework to service contract Lot 1: Met Éireann intend to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a framework agreement for the development, installation, support, and hosting of a FEWS Integrator for the Flood Forecasting Centre. The framework agreement will be established on foot of this tender competition/a competition for an initial contract for the development of a Delft-FEWS platform in an operational setting, integrating data management and forecasting tasks for several larger catchments (hereafter referred to as Hydrometric Areas) into a National Scale Flood Forecasting system. The working platform must facilitate flood forecasting at both a National and Catchment level. The tender will be required to integrate 3rd party hydrological model software into the Delft-FEWS platform. The platform will be cloud based and be geo-resilient. During the competition the mechanism for appointing the successful tenderer was changed from a framework to service contract. Please consult the associated documentation, which contains full instructions regarding the submission of tenders and is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 178057.