Closed tender

Met Office CSSP Brazil Grant Funding FY25/26

Details

Buyer: Met Office
Value: £360,000
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 31 January 2025
Submission: 28 March 2025
Source: uk:procontracts

Tender description

The WCSSP programme has been developing a global network of partnerships that harness the weather and climate scientific expertise of UK and partner countries to strengthen the weather and climate resilience of vulnerable communities around the world since 2014. Through the WCSSP programme, we are working collaboratively on projects that focus on the global challenges of weather and climate with partners in Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Southeast Asia. International collaboration is vital to addressing the issues presented by global weather and climate change.?Launched in 2016, the Climate Science for Service Partnership Brazil (CSSP Brazil) is a research project that aims to build strong partnerships between research institutes in the UK and Brazil. CSSP Brazil produces collaborative science that is fundamental to the development of climate services that support climate-resilient economic development and social welfare. The project provides grants to support researchers from the UK climate science community in their work with Brazilian research institutes. Keywords: WCSSP, CSSP Brazil, Met Office

Timeline

Completed: Tender published31 January 2025
Current notice
Completed: Submission date28 March 2025

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. 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.

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.

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