Procurement

Space Weather R2O2R - University of Surrey

  • Met Office

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-059845

Description

Competition is absent for technical reasons and proprietary rights:

The deliverables within the contract are associated with a model and code already developed and owned by the partner, (supplier) to a specific maturity under the SWIMMR Programme. The academics hold the model code IPR and provide model access to Met Office under Licence (pending renewal on signature of the contract) and therefore are uniquely placed to provide these services to the Met Office. Delivery will 'accelerate' the model's development towards transition to operations within the Met Office Space Weather service as mandated by DSIT. The purpose of the contract is to continue development of the models (which requires the 'deep expertise' of the model developer) and to transfer model and model code knowledge and expertise. In short, there is no other supplier for the work associated with this model as the Met Office requires the code and expertise solely located at Surrey.

Notices

UK6: Contract award notice

Notice identifier
2025/S 000-055678
Published
11 September 2025, 10:11am

UK5: Transparency notice

Notice identifier
2025/S 000-055668
Published
11 September 2025, 10:00am