Space Weather R2O2R - BAS
Details
- Buyer
- Met Office
- Supplier(s)
- British Antarctic Survey, NERC UK LTD
- Value
- £158,000
- Duration
- 9 months
- Topic
- Research and development services and related consultancy services
- Published
- 26 June 2025
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
BAS to provide support for the following tasks: • Finalise restructuring of the codebase into separate repos to primarily address the security risks related to private repos. • Determine minimum testing requirements and implement tests, particularly for vulnerability/patching purposes and integration tests. • Implement displays of Galileo and Sentinel-6 data for MEO orbits. • Implement real-time displays of protons and electrons from MetOp01 and MetOp03 satellites in LEO to provide displays of data across the whole radiation belt and for comparison against BAS-RBM: integral electron flux, maps of electron counts, differential proton flux, integral proton flux, maps of counts for protons. • Implementation of proton/electron contamination removal algorithm for MetOp and displays of cleaned electron/proton fluxes - removal of proton contamination from MetOp electron channels E1, E2, E3, display real-time cleaned electron counts, display real-time differential electron flux, display real-time maps of cleaned counts for protons. • Provide support for customer engagement activities (primarily MOSWOC) to further refine visualisations. • Implement Dictat for Navstar. • Support for verification work to be done at the Met Office though regular discussions. • Support for versioning of elements in codebase such as diffusion coefficients. ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award published26 June 2025Current notice
- Completed: Award date26 June 2025
- Completed: Contract expiry date31 March 2026
About the buyer
Met Office buys as a central government agency, delivering weather and climate services as an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Tenders run through the Met Office's own ProActis portal, with opportunities and awards also published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Collaborative government agreements route much of its buying through the Crown Commercial Service, alongside the ESPO and YPO frameworks. Standard contracts are awarded through desktop competitions or full tender exercises, usually inviting four or more suppliers to bid. The commercial team runs this process, following Cabinet Office best practice.
Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.
Over the past 5 years, most of Met Office's contract awards have been in software and information systems, research and development and IT services.
Relevant CPV codes
- 73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@met-office.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@met-office.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@met-office.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@met-office.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@met-office.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@met-office.gov |
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