Official UK procurement notice
Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service
Authority: Met Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe delivery of a managed Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This procurement is for the delivery of a managed Environmental Observations Data…
This procurement is for the delivery of a managed Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service.
The central component of this service is a specialised Cloud-hosted software platform to ingest, process and expose a comprehensive suite of environmental (non-NWP) weather data through the OGC Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API.
Observations are critical to the Met Office ability to deliver value to our customers in the Nowcasting time periods and to support validation of Numerical Weather Prediction.
In order to continue to get observations (environmental weather data) to our meteorologists and into customer products and services, the Met Office has a prerequisite to be able to expose the data in a way that meets downstream user requirements for standard protocols and formats.
To address the detailed challenges the Met Office seeks to develop an observations software platform. This will be deployable to an AWS Cloud location and will, in addition, need to manage data transfer which overcomes current Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API architectural constraints, inherent within the complex Met Office domain.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Mar 2024, 11:21 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Mar 2024, 11:21 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-008143- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044872Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The Met Office intends to award a contract to IBL for the provision of a managed Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service.
IBL is the only supplier with the necessary OGC EDR standard domain knowledge and technical understanding of the existing Met Office infrastructure to deliver the requirements within the critical timescales needed to meet the strategic dependencies of downstream projects across the Met Office.
Contracting with another supplier would therefore create unacceptable delivery delay risks for providing critical observations data to Met Office customers.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBL Software Engineering SlovakiaSME | £500,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 008143-2024-1 · IBL Software Engineering SlovakiaSME
- Signed
- 14 Mar 2024
- Value
- £500,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- IBL Software Engineering SlovakiaAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.