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Met Office Delivery Partnerships Framework

Met Office

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29 Jan 2021 at 14:52

Tender Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The Met Office is initiating a tender for the "Met Office Delivery Partnerships Framework", with a total estimated value of £30 million, aimed at procuring IT services including consulting, software development, and support. This framework will facilitate both tactical and strategic partnership contracts over a duration of up to four years, focusing on enhancing the Met Office's technology systems and capabilities. The tender period is set to conclude on 1 March 2021, with invitations to tender expected by 31 March 2021. The procurement method is selective, following a restricted procedure, and is located in Exeter, UK.

This opportunity presents a significant growth avenue for businesses in the IT services sector, particularly those specialising in software development, systems integration, and data science. Companies experienced in forming collaborative partnerships that can augment the Met Office’s capabilities will be particularly well-suited to compete. Suppliers adept in delivering complex programmes, offering high-level consultancy, or providing comprehensive support for hardware and software implementations are also encouraged to participate, as the contract requirements will necessitate both expertise and resource flexibility.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Met Office Delivery Partnerships Framework

Notice Description

This Framework will support the Met Office to award a number of potential future contracts which will include Delivery Partnership relationships of both a tactical (e.g. one-off developments) and strategic (longer term 2 / 3 project and programme requirements) nature. The estimated value of PS30 million for this Framework is based on the potential demand and varying length of contracts which the Met Office may seeks to award through it. The potential framework will help transform the Met Office by supporting the following Strategic Actions identified by the MO: * Developing and nurturing capability partnerships * Delivering a Common Met Office Data Platform * Exploiting the future of data sciences * Taking a common approach to customer data services The Met Office is therefore establishing a framework with a number of companies who can help with that transformation, both by bringing new skills and knowledge and by bolstering the capacity and capability of existing Met Office teams to deliver required outcomes. This should also include being able to supply additional resource to augment teams if and where further gaps are identified, ensuring up-skilling is provided if required. This does not include contingent labour which the Met Office have separate contractual arrangements in place for. The Met Office's new strategy requires a significant step change in technology systems, resources and ways of working. This is encapsulated in a number of 'Strategic Actions'. Several of these actions will be realised via programmes of work with both customer benefit and technology at their heart. The amount of change ahead is large and many of these changes are interrelated and complex, and the Met Office cannot make these changes alone. By extending our capacity and capability, we can move faster and focus on the areas we add real value by leveraging the expertise of partners.

Lot Information

Applications Development

"The ability to build and deliver customer and business facing applications from well elaborated requirements" This lot is intended for suppliers who will largely be working with the Met Office, where we will be defining requirements and supervising delivery with the expectation of transferring the capability back to an internal team or other 3rd party support capability.

Applications Design, Development & Support

An overlapping category that distinguishes larger organisations that can deliver and support the end to end discovery and live phases of any capability from outline requirements. This lot is intended for suppliers who may largely be working with Met Office, where we will expect that supplier to understand an outcome and perform the discovery, lifecycle and retirement activities required to deliver it. The critical differentiator for these suppliers is their ability to provide a hosting and support capability.

Hardware Installation, lifecycling and support

The ability to install and support physical infrastructure such as compute and network capability. This lot is intended for suppliers who are expected to be able to provide the ability to installation, management, migration and integration of hardware solutions at scale, or in niche contexts.

Advice and Expertise

Leadership and consultancy to provide advice to a programme in the form of ongoing expertise, business analysis or project management. This lot is intended for areas where the Met Office is expected to be able to deliver the outcome, but expertise is needed at a high level to define the desired outcome or the roadmap. These suppliers will also be capable of providing supporting delivery resources, but not necessarily the delivery resources themselves.

Enterprise Partners

Suppliers with capability across all other Lots who have experience in delivering large change programmes and projects. Large scale suppliers with reach back and out to all delivery, management and support capabilities Lot 5 is specifically designed to capture the large system integrators and IT service suppliers should a "one stop shop" solution be required, or a significantly large and costly programme of work be best delivered by one party. Therefore Lot 5 providers will be required to demonstrate that they have existing skills, capabilities and pricing across Lots 2, 3 and 4 (as well as those required for Lot 5).

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-028e9a
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001860-2021
Current Stage
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All Stages
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Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Framework
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Restricted procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

CPV Codes

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72200000 - Software programming and consultancy services

72700000 - Computer network services

73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£30,000,000 £10M-£100M
Lots Value
£30,000,000 £10M-£100M
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
29 Jan 20215 years ago
Submission Deadline
1 Mar 2021Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Active
Lots Status
Active
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Met Office
Additional Buyers

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
EXETER
Postcode
EX1 3PB
Postcode Area
Exeter
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLK South West (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLK4 Devon
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLK43 Devon CC
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Exeter
Electoral Ward
Pinhoe
Westminster Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East

Further Information

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