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title: "Met office services"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03bf00"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NATURAL RESOURCES WALES"
published: "2023-05-02"
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# Met office services

Buyer: NATURAL RESOURCES WALES  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03bf00

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## Summary

Natural Resources Wales has awarded a contract for Met Office services on April 25, 2023. The procurement process was initiated through a tender and utilised the procurement method of an Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. The contract covers services in the meteorology industry classified under CPV code 71351610. The contract involves multiple lots, with the main focus on Flood Data Feeds & 24/7 Service Desk Support, Water Resources management, and Rain gauge network inspection & data quality control. The buying organisation, Natural Resources Wales, based in Cardiff, United Kingdom, awarded the contract with a value of GBP 295,778.60.

This procurement opportunity for Met Office services can benefit businesses involved in meteorological data provision, quality control services, and consultancy within the environmental protection sector. Companies offering services related to near real-time observational and forecast data, water resources management, and rain gauge network inspection are well-suited to compete. The procurement stage has reached the award phase, and the contract has been successfully signed with Met Office, offering growth opportunities for suppliers involved in providing critical meteorology and coastal forecasting services.

## Notice

We currently procure our meteorological and coastal forecasting data from the UK Met Office both directly (via this contract) or through other UK partnerships (for example the UK Coastal Flood Forecasting partnership). The use of Met office meteorological and coastal forecasting data is part of a wider long-term working relationship with the Met Office whereby we use this data in conjunction with "added value" consultancy services delivered by the Flood Forecasting Centre (procured under separate arrangements) and the Met Office to provide NRW with a complete integrated assessment of the meteorological forecast and so enable us to determine the resulting flood risk for Wales

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Flood Data Feeds & 24/7 Service Desk Support The provision of near real time observational and forecast data feeds, supporting 24/7 helpdesk support. The real time data feeds are taken directly into our operational FEWS Wales flood forecasting system for making forecasts of river and coastal flooding across Wales. This data includes rainfall (meteorological forecast and weather radar observations), forecast wind, astronomic tide, forecast storm surge and forecast waves. The contract also provisions for 24/7 helpdesk support given the business-critical nature of these near real time data services to NRW. Water Resources management and reporting data (MORECS Data and Monthly Areal Rainfall Datasets) The provision of weekly and monthly MORECS data (including soil moisture and evaporation data) and daily and monthly NCIC areal rainfall data used for NRW water resources situation reporting and assessments across Wales. Rain gauge network inspection & data quality control This includes: Routine physical site audits by a Met Office inspector to ensure our rain gauge sites comply with Met Office and World Meteorological Office (WMO) standards for the measurement of precipitation. This is an unaccompanied inspection on a three-year cycle to observer manual gauges and an accompanied inspection on a 6 year cycle, on a risk-based approach, to automatic gauges Quality assurance of measured precipitation data to ensure compliance with national standards and in statistical compliance with geographically similar rain gauges Return of the quality assured rain gauge data to NRW for uploading to our WISKI7 hydrometric archive for use by NRW hydrologist and water resource specialists.

### Procurement Information

Met Office is the gov sponsored provider of UK public weather services and are a provider of quality control and audit services for the rainfall observation network across the UK. To fulfil this requirement elsewhere would be disproportionately costly and cause difficult technical issues.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012535-2023 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 2 May 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 3 Apr 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £295,778 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NATURAL RESOURCES WALES |
| Locality | CARDIFF |
| Post town | Cardiff |
| Postcode | CF24 0TP |
| Country | Wales |
| ITL 1 | TLL Wales |
| ITL 2 | TLL5 South East Wales |
| ITL 3 | TLL52 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan |
| Local authority | Cardiff |
| Electoral ward | Plasnewydd |
| Westminster constituency | Cardiff East |
| Delivery location | TLK43 Devon CC |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MET OFFICE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

### Codes

- 71351610 - Meteorology services

## Release History

- 2 May 2023 at 14:14 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012535-2023
- 17 Apr 2023 at 07:55 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010880-2023

## Notice URLs

- http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
- https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0110

## Provenance

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