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title: "Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-044872"
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# Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service

Buyer: MET OFFICE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-044872

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## Summary

The Met Office has awarded a contract to IBL Software Engineering Slovakia for the provision of a managed Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service. The procurement process culminated in this award, which was conducted using a limited procurement method without prior publication of a call for competition. This service falls under the IT services category and includes the delivery of a specialised Cloud-hosted software platform for environmental observations data management. The contract is valued at £500,000 and was signed on March 14, 2024, creating business opportunities for IT service providers with expertise in environmental data management.

The awarded contract links the buying organisation, the Met Office, located in Exeter, United Kingdom, with IBL Software Engineering Slovakia. This contract is part of the services procurement category and is aimed at enabling the Met Office to access and utilise critical environmental weather data. Businesses specialising in IT services, particularly those experienced in cloud-based solutions and environmental data processing, would find this tender suitable for expanding their operations. The procurement process reached the award stage on March 14, 2024, following a rationale that highlighted the unique capabilities of the winning supplier, IBL, in meeting the Met Office's specific technical requirements efficiently.

## Notice

The delivery of a managed Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

This procurement is for the delivery of a managed Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service. The central component of this service is a specialised Cloud-hosted software platform to ingest, process and expose a comprehensive suite of environmental (non-NWP) weather data through the OGC Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API. Observations are critical to the Met Office ability to deliver value to our customers in the Nowcasting time periods and to support validation of Numerical Weather Prediction. In order to continue to get observations (environmental weather data) to our meteorologists and into customer products and services, the Met Office has a prerequisite to be able to expose the data in a way that meets downstream user requirements for standard protocols and formats. To address the detailed challenges the Met Office seeks to develop an observations software platform. This will be deployable to an AWS Cloud location and will, in addition, need to manage data transfer which overcomes current Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API architectural constraints, inherent within the complex Met Office domain.

Options: An extension option will be included in the contract.

### Procurement Information

The Met Office intends to award a contract to IBL for the provision of a managed Environmental Observations Data Storage and Retrieval Service. IBL is the only supplier with the necessary OGC EDR standard domain knowledge and technical understanding of the existing Met Office infrastructure to deliver the requirements within the critical timescales needed to meet the strategic dependencies of downstream projects across the Met Office. Contracting with another supplier would therefore create unacceptable delivery delay risks for providing critical observations data to Met Office customers.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008143-2024 |
| 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 | 14 Mar 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 14 Mar 2024 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £500,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | MET OFFICE |
| Locality | EXETER |
| Post town | Exeter |
| Postcode | EX1 3PB |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK4 Devon |
| ITL 3 | TLK43 Devon CC |
| Local authority | Exeter |
| Electoral ward | Pinhoe |
| Westminster constituency | Exmouth and Exeter East |
| Delivery location | TLK South West (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | IBL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SLOVAKIA |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

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

## Release History

- 14 Mar 2024 at 11:21 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008143-2024

## Notice URLs

- https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

## Provenance

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