Award

Space Weather R2O2R

  • Met Office

UK6: Contract award notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-054007

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-055404 (view related notices)

Published 4 September 2025, 3:27pm



Scope

Description

BAS to provide support for the following tasks:

• Finalise restructuring of the codebase into separate repos to primarily address the security risks related to private repos.

• Determine minimum testing requirements and implement tests, particularly for vulnerability/patching purposes and integration tests.

• Implement displays of Galileo and Sentinel-6 data for MEO orbits.

• Implement real-time displays of protons and electrons from MetOp01 and MetOp03 satellites in LEO to provide displays of data across the whole radiation belt and for comparison against BAS-RBM: integral electron flux, maps of electron counts, differential proton flux, integral proton flux, maps of counts for protons.

• Implementation of proton/electron contamination removal algorithm for MetOp and displays of cleaned electron/proton fluxes - removal of proton contamination from MetOp electron channels E1, E2, E3, display real-time cleaned electron counts, display real-time differential electron flux, display real-time maps of cleaned counts for protons.

• Provide support for customer engagement activities (primarily MOSWOC) to further refine visualisations.

• Implement Dictat for Navstar.

• Support for verification work to be done at the Met Office though regular discussions.

• Support for versioning of elements in codebase such as diffusion coefficients.


Contract 1

Supplier

Contract value

  • £158,000 excluding VAT
  • £189,600 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Award decision date

4 September 2025

Standstill period

  • End: 15 September 2025
  • 8 working days

Earliest date the contract will be signed

18 September 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 18 September 2025 to 31 March 2026
  • 6 months, 13 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

Contract locations

  • UKC - North East (England)
  • UKD - North West (England)
  • UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
  • UKG - West Midlands (England)
  • UKH - East of England
  • UKI - London
  • UKJ - South East (England)
  • UKK - South West (England)

Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award


Supplier

NERC UK LTD

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PVLD-3283-PXVL

71 kingsway North, Team Valley

Gateshead

NE11 0JH

United Kingdom

Region: UKC22 - Tyneside

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Supported employment provider: No

Public service mutual: No

Contract 1


Contracting authority

Met Office

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PVZW-3234-DTLY

Met Office

Exeter

EX1 3PB

United Kingdom

Region: UKK43 - Devon CC

Organisation type: Public authority - central government