Published date: 26 January 2022
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Opportunity (published 26 January 2022, last edited 7 February 2022)
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Contract summary
Industry
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000
Location of contract
England
Value of contract
£100,000 to £130,000
Procurement reference
METOFC001-DN589873-84534761
Published date
26 January 2022
Closing date
25 February 2022
Closing time
2pm
Contract start date
1 May 2022
Contract end date
30 April 2024
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?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
The Met Office and Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC) require access to filtered, relevant and geolocated impact information in near real time during weather events. This is to support operational situational awareness, real-time forecast modification and to support post event verification of the National Severe Weather Warning Service and the Flood Guidance Statement.
Impacts are often reported on social media and the ability to obtain this information quickly, consistently and with minimal noise is becoming increasingly important. This is because there is an increased expectation for the Met Office and FFC to have a detailed awareness of impacts as they happen, and the collation of higher quality and quantity impact information improves the confidence in the assessment of the skill of our forecasts.
This project will procure an operational tool that collates, filters and geo-locates near real-time impact information to support operational forecasts and verification. This will support the Met Office corporate vision to be recognised as global leaders in weather and climate science, given this is a nascent and emerging technology that we will be among the first to develop and use. It will also support our anchor of improving the skill and verification of our 0-2-hour forecasts (nowcasts) as well as exploiting this particular branch of data science.
About the buyer
Contact name
Sarah Cooke
Address
Fitzroy Road
Exeter
EX1 3PB
United Kingdom
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