Published date: 21 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: 22 February 2021, 2pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data supply services - 72319000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£360,000

Procurement reference

BIP561921588

Published date

21 January 2021

Closing date

22 February 2021

Closing time

2pm

Contract start date

1 April 2021

Contract end date

31 March 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?

Yes

Description

BEIS is looking for a supplier to undertake the provision and management of the UK component of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Data Distribution Centre (DDC) which provides access to modelling and scenario data used by the IPCC, and archives data underpinning key figures of IPCC reports.

The IPCC DDC is housed at http://www.ipcc-data.org/

The contractor will be responsible for managing the UK aspects of the existing DDC site, which provides the gateway to the data for all of the DDC and captures and archives observational datasets for the IPCC.  

The DDC is overseen by the IPCC's Task Group for Data (TG-Data), which receives its mandate from, and reports to, the IPCC Bureau.

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About the buyer

Address

1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
UK

Telephone

+4420772153818

Email

caroline.prescott@beis.gov.uk