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title: "Met office services"
ocid: "ocds-kuma6s-130621"
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source: "Sell2Wales"
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-kuma6s-130621

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## Summary

Natural Resources Wales, a Welsh Government Sponsored Body based in Cardiff, UK, has completed a procurement process for Met office services related to environmental protection. The procurement method used was a limited procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. The services procured include Meteorological and Coastal Forecasting Data, with a focus on quality control and audit services provided by the MET OFFICE, the sole provider due to cost and technical reasons.

This tender for Met office services by Natural Resources Wales offers business growth opportunities for SMEs in the UK offering meteorological, coastal forecasting, and quality control services. Businesses providing environmental protection services and weather-related consultancy can find suitable opportunities to compete. The contract, aimed at supporting NRW's flood forecasting and water resource management in Wales, involves the provision of real-time data feeds, service desk support, and data quality control, offering a comprehensive opportunity for service providers in the meteorological and environmental sectors.

## 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. Met Office provide compatibility by using the same underpinning data and forecasts for NRW flood forecasting, warning and informing service. MORECS Data and Areal Rainfall Datasets are used to assess and report on the water situation, which is particularly important in dry weather to inform our decisions on drought management. These are the only datasets, which Met Office have exclusive rights to the IPR, that enable us to calculate long term average statistics on rainfall and soil moisture deficits at a strategic Wales and area level. The Met Office quality control all rainfall data from gauge sites within Wales (i.e. NRW and Met Office gauges) that have been registered with the Met Office in order to meet BS7843 standards requirements and send this data to NRW in a format compliant with NRW's IT systems, including all quality control comments indicating any changes made to the data during the quality control process. They have bespoke tools designed specifically to quality control rainfall data incorporating manually read rainfall data, automatically read rainfall data, radar data, storm event data including lightning event records and crowd source information, as well as elements specified by NRW, ensuring the quality-controlled data is of the highest possible quality.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Sell2Wales |
| Latest notice | https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=130621 |
| Notice type | OJEU - F3 - Contract 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 | 4 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 | Complete |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| 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 00:00 - Award - OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=130621
- 17 Apr 2023 at 00:00 - Award - OJEU - F15 - Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice - https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=130621

## Documents

- https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=APR434487
  Met office services - 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
- https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAY436143
  Met office services - 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

## Notice URLs

- http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
- https://api.sell2wales.gov.wales/v1?lang=cy/Notice?id=ocds-kuma6s-130621

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