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Profiling Floats for Ocean Data Collection

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Location not published
Published value
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Submission deadline Not published
Lots published2
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Tenderline Synopsis: Met Office: "Profiling Floats for Ocean Data Collection". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 2 published lots. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityMet OfficeScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Met Office
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Published history for Met Office. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
12.2Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
UNIVERSITY OF EXETERTop vendor: 48.6% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 298 active published awards; 6 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER1 win£104,476
STFC1 win£69,816
Oxidian Ltd1 win£40,837
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityMet Office
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSFramework
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published20 Jan 2026, 16:48 GMT
Last source update20 Jan 2026, 16:48 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-059f75
What is being bought
The Met Office awarded a framework agreement for the following Lots: Lot 1 - Standard floats with Iridium communications Lot 2 - Iridium floats with bio-geochemical sensors
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    20 Jan 2026, 16:48 GMT
  2. tender value changed
    18 Dec 2025, 16:49 GMT
  3. Status changed to complete
    18 Dec 2025, 16:49 GMT
  4. Official notice release published
    18 Dec 2025, 16:49 GMT
  5. Submission deadline changed to published date
    18 Dec 2025, 16:49 GMT
  6. Published value updated to £1,900,000
    22 Sept 2025, 16:08 BST
  7. Status changed to active
    22 Sept 2025, 16:08 BST
  8. Official notice release published
    22 Sept 2025, 16:08 BST
  9. Submission deadline changed to 22 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
    22 Sept 2025, 16:08 BST
  10. Buyer information updated
    22 Sept 2025, 16:08 BST
Lots and requirements (2)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
  • Lot 2 · #2
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    20 Jan 2026, 16:48 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  4. Contract active
    Signed 19 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT · £2,152,748
  5. Contract active
    Signed 19 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT · £179,091
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
SWALE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, nke Instrumentation
Not published · Not published · active
SWALE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, nke Instrumentation
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£2,152,748 · signed 19 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT · active
Contract period: 27 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT — 26 Jan 2029, 23:59 GMT
Contract
£179,091 · signed 19 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT · active
Contract period: 27 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT — 26 Jan 2029, 23:59 GMT
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Met Office

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PVZW-3234-DTLY
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Documents (1)
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