Published date: 10 December 2020

Last edited date: 18 January 2021

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 18 January 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Weather-forecasting services - 71351600

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£200,000

Procurement reference

METOFC001-DN514238-69442850

Published date

10 December 2020

Closing date

18 January 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

29 October 2021

Contract end date

27 October 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Real-time Groundwater Flood Forecasting Service for England
The requirement is for a groundwater flood forecasting service to support The Flood Forecasting Centre's real-time operational decision making on emerging groundwater flood risk.

The service will support the Flood Forecasting Centre's (FFC) operational decision making on groundwater flood risk for the Flood Guidance Statement and Flood Outlook and will also support discussions with local (Environment Agency) forecasters. The service will use a scenario-based approach to include both the most likely (best estimate) and the reasonable worse case scenarios up to 30 days ahead. It will include the use of ensemble rainfall forecasts to provide true probabilistic groundwater flood forecasts.

Forecasts are required for individual borehole locations across the main aquifers of England, these will be scaled-up to provide assessments of impacts at the local as well as a county/unitary authority scale. Forecasts will be delivered to the FFC via the web and supported through consultancy as required. The operational service will run from the beginning of November through to the end of April each year. Also required are pre-season training for operational hydrometeorologists within the FFC, weekly summary reports, an end of season performance report and the option for system development ahead of each winter.

The contract will be for a period of 2 years, with 2 optional additional years (2+1 +1 years). Following award of contract there will be a period of no less than 3 months for system configuration, testing and training, with a fully operational service beginning on 1 November 2021.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Ground Water Flood Forecasting Service

  • Opportunity
  • Published 10 December 2020

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Mel Staton

Address

Fitzroy Road
Exeter
EX1 3PB
England

Telephone

+44 1392885279

Email

mel.staton@metoffice.gov.uk

Website

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk