FASTER - Enabling AI/native discovery and access to IMPROVER Data
Details
- Buyer
- Met Office
- Supplier(s)
- The Alan Turing Institute
- Value
- £120,000
- Duration
- 5 months
- Topic
- Research and experimental development services
- Published
- 11 November 2026
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
Undertake a small, targeted and comparative investigation into how commercial Large Language Models and AI agents can discover, access, consume and correctly use selected UK IMPROVER spot forecast data. ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award published11 November 2026Current notice
- Completed: Award date11 November 2026
- Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 5 months
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.
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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