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# Met Office Academic Partnership Science Framework

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/met-office-academic-partnership-science-framework-ocds-h6vhtk-032581). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Met Office: "Met Office Academic Partnership Science Framework". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: £8,000,000. 13 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 13 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Met Office](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/met-office-gov-ea46)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £8,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 13 June 2022 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 13
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Research and Development services on security and defence materials, Research and development consultancy services, Research and development services and related consultancy services, Research and experimental development services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/met-office-academic-partnership-science-framework-ocds-h6vhtk-032581#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-032581`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
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- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/met-office-academic-partnership-science-framework-ocds-h6vhtk-032581#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3D2d064d34-4cab-ec11-8112-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/met-office-academic-partnership-science-framework-ocds-h6vhtk-032581#participate

## Description
The Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) is a cluster of research excellence bringing together the Met Office and leading UK Universities through a formal collaboration to advance the science and skill of weather and climate prediction.

## Lots (13)
### Lot 1: Joint Chair Services
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £1,600,000
- **Description:** To foster the Partnership the Met Office invests in jointly funded chairs (‘MOAP Joint Chair Services’) with partner Universities. Up to 8 Universities will be awarded a place on Lot 1 to deliver Joint Chair Services.

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 2: Hazard to decision making
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Hazard to Decision Making Research and Innovation Theme Expand and improve our services for stakeholders’ risk-based decision making by working with users, social scientists, behavioural scientists, financial impact experts and engineers to gain an i...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 3: Research to Production
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Research to Production Theme Pull through developments in weather and climate research to improve our forecast systems, tailored to services in the forecasting timescales of primary interest to the Met Office and its customers.

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 4: Producing, Refining and Delivering data
- **Lot id:** `4`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Producing, Refining and Delivering data Theme Develop the Met Office supercomputing estate for operations and research, establish the technology and science needed to move, store and process our data, and design a flexible post-processing framework t...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 5: Seamless Environmental Prediction
- **Lot id:** `5`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Seamless Environmental Prediction Theme Further develop our world-leading seamless environmental prediction capability, whereby a single model family is used in conjunction with observations and theory, to quantify weather hazards in the past, in pre...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 6: Next Generation Modelling Systems
- **Lot id:** `6`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Next Generation Modelling Systems Theme Revolutionise the Met Office’s complete weather and climate research and operational simulation systems so that the Met Office and its partners are ready to fully exploit future generations of supercomputer.

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 7: Fusing Simulation with Data Sciences
- **Lot id:** `7`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Fusing Simulation with Data Sciences Theme Use new and evolving data science methods such as artificial intelligence and machine learning and advanced data assimilation in order to remain at the cutting edge of weather and climate prediction and impa...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 8: The Path to High Resolution
- **Lot id:** `8`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The Path to High Resolution Theme In order to better predict hazards and extremes, develop the next generation of very high resolution global and regional environmental prediction systems, based on global convection-permitting atmosphere models coupl...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 9: Producing and Exploiting Ensembles
- **Lot id:** `9`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** In order to include forecasts of uncertainty at the heart of our endeavour, develop ensemble based systems and exploit them for prediction across timescales, while developing new and novel uses of ensemble information for improved understanding of we...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 10: Capturing Environmental Complexity
- **Lot id:** `10`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Capturing Environmental Complexity Theme In order to pioneer new and improved impact based forecast services and advice on global climate change mitigation, extend our environmental prediction capability with a focus on cities, air quality, the water...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 11: Technology Architecture and Innovation
- **Lot id:** `11`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The Met Office is looking to develop a federated cloud data platform for Met Office and partner scientists and experts. This will mean developing appropriate standards for data and cloud service interoperability, enhancing opportunities for collabora...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 12: Advancing Observations
- **Lot id:** `12`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The Met Office is seeking a step change in its observational capability to deliver what is needed in the 2030s through realising the value of third party and opportunistic observations. This will mean enhancing benefits from underpinning reference an...

- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 13: Co-Sponsorship Agreements
- **Lot id:** `13`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 73100000, 73200000, 73400000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Co-Sponsorship Agreements may be available for up to 8 Universities (The same Universities who achieve a Joint Chair Services place on Lot 1). These agreements are approximately 10 in number per annum covering various jointly funded key personnel to ...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 028822-2022-DN600943 - MOAP Science Delivery Framework-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **University College London, University of Birmingham, University of Bristol (+5 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-137382`, `GB-FTS-78261`, `GB-FTS-151502`, `GB-FTS-113504`, `GB-FTS-13761`, `GB-FTS-174587`, `GB-FTS-186482`, `GB-FTS-79643`
  - Value: £8,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 028822-2022-DN600943 - MOAP Science Delivery Framework-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £8,000,000
  - Signed Date: 29/09/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F028822-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-10-13T11:57:16.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T08:16:41.679Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-032581