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# NG-R2C - GC-Faster

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/ng-r2c-gc-faster-ocds-h6vhtk-078dfb). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Met Office: "NG-R2C - GC-Faster". Published status: complete. Contract Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Met Office](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/met-office-gov-ea46)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - without competition
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £92,315 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/ng-r2c-gc-faster-ocds-h6vhtk-078dfb#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-078dfb`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **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.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **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/ng-r2c-gc-faster-ocds-h6vhtk-078dfb#tl-md)

## Description
The University of Cambridge is the leading development centre for the chemistry component of the United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols (UKCA) model, a key component of the Met Office's collaboratively developed UK Earth System Model (UKESM). The University have contributed significantly to international model intercomparison exercises using UKCA and UKESM. They have regularly contributed new model developments and functionality to UKCA. 
Next Generation Research to Climate (NG-R2C) is a component project within the Met Office's Next Generation Modelling Systems (NGMS) Programme. The Programme's aim is to reformulate and redesign our complete weather and climate research and operational/ production systems, including oceans and the environment, to allow us to fully exploit future generations of supercomputer for the benefits of society. Preparation of our new Momentum®-based UKESM configuration is a key outcome in the Met Office's corporate strategy and accompanying Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
The need to reduce the compute cost and increase the speed of our weather and climate models is stronger than ever. Reducing numerical precision from double precision to single precision offers a promising route to significantly reducing the computational cost of Earth System Models, and single precision implementations of Momentum model components are roughly 30% quicker than their double precision counterparts. UKCA remains one of the major model components operating in double precision, making it an attractive target for optimisation.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 73110000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** NG-R2C - GC-Faster (active)
  - Award id: `1`
  - Supplier(s): **THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-131689`
  - Value: £92,315 (exc. VAT)

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £92,315
  - Signed Date: 20/10/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F100594-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-10-23T13:49:50.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-24T00:36:26.088Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-078dfb