Research and development services and related consultancy services

Description

This invitation to tender (ITT) aimed at selecting use cases to bring about success stories of the uptake of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) products to spin-up sustainable applications and businesses. Based on a market analysis, the contractor should develop and demonstrate an end-to-end Application based on C3S products and the tools provided by the Climate Data Store (CDS) infrastructure. The objective of such contracts is to create downstream applications at the service of users based on C3S data and the associated infrastructure. This contract award notice lists the contractors for Round 2 of the ITT. The contractor for contract No ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2019/C3S_428d_VORTEX will develop an online platform fed by observational, reanalysis and climate change data, to offer the customer access to on-demand downscaled scenarios. Such platform will seamlessly interact with the existing Copernicus data streams, providing a user-friendly tool to access climate information. The proposal builds upon Vortex business model and extend it to a broader range of users with a demand for high resolution and easy to access climate risk information at different time scales. The platform will offer a similar structure of products as the current Vortex system adapted to climate risks management applications.