Notice Information
Notice Title
Space Weather Delivery Partner
Notice Description
The Met Office owns the Severe Space Weather Risk on the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) and receives funding from the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) to deliver a core national space weather capability to inform mitigation against the worst effects by government and critical sectors. Given the prominence of the severe space weather as a 'significant' risk on the UK Government's NSRA and the higher than anticipated activity in this solar cycle, crossgovernment activity has increased putting greater demands and requirements on Met Office. Increased funding has been secured to resource these more demanding requirements focussed on improving UK preparedness for any future severe space weather event. Met Office Technology team is looking to supplement its internal resources to support and advise the Space Weather programme from the technical perspective. The resources to be provided by the Delivery Partner will work in a blended team and will be supported by Met Office internal technical, product and delivery management leadership. The Met Office require resources to develop, support, maintain and improve our Space Weather portfolio and associated technologies. We're looking for skills that align to the GDaD Profession Capability Framework. The successful supplier will be expected to supply a suitable development team with the capacity to take immediate ownership of the support and delivery of the Met Office Space Weather portfolio. Note that a period of dual contract running is planned in order to ensure an effective handover of assets and domain knowledge. The contract will be a non exclusive contract delivered via Statements of Work on time and materials, capped time and materials and a hybrid pricing model using capped time and materials and fixed cost elements for appropriate SoW's.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: Option to extend for a further period of up to two years exercisable at Buyer's discretion
Planning Information
Met Office wishes to speak to the market to gain their insights and experience in this field which may be fed into the development and make-up of the Space Weather Delivery Partner solution. Met Office intends to hold a Supplier Market Engagement event on 1st April 2025, this will be a virtual event. In advance of this event, we will be issuing a draft specification, a Space Weather Early Market Engagement document and a Request for information (RFI) document, this will be no later than 21st March 25 via the Met Office ProContract portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Register. The RFI will contain a number of questions we would like responses to, the RFI return date will be the 11th April 2025 The documents will be published and available via the Met Office ProContract portal and potential suppliers will have the option to ask clarification questions during this Market Engagement period. To register attendance for the virtual Market Engagement event and to access the relevant information relating to this Space Weather Delivery Partner Market Engagement, potential suppliers must register on the Met Office ProContract Portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Register Please Note: This information will not be available via any other source. For any system issues related to registration or accessing the opportunity on the Met Office ProContract Portal please contact the ProContract Helpdesk - by emailing the ProContract support team - ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ecd5
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/083686-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK6 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £15,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £15,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- £15,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 17 Dec 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 19 Aug 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 24 Apr 2025Expired
- Award Date
- 12 Dec 20252 months ago
- Contract Period
- 1 Feb 2026 - 31 Jan 2031 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- 2030-05-01
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- MET OFFICE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- procurement.enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EXETER
- Postcode
- EX1 3PB
- Post Town
- 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
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/083686-2025
17th December 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039837-2025
15th July 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037494-2025
4th July 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/032454-2025
16th June 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/032440-2025
16th June 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/032126-2025
13th June 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009247-2025
13th March 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
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