Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-01-12
Buyer: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 2550000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-02-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), invites tenders for the provision of Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products and services in the domain of atmospheric composition, specifically for Carbon Dioxide and Methane, Ozone, and Aerosols Properties. The purpose of this Invitation to Tender (ITT) is the provision of operational services aimed at ensuring dependable access to high-quality, consistent, and globally homogeneous satellite climate data products via the Climate Data Store (CDS) in the domain of atmospheric composition.
ECMWF intends to award a single Framework Agreement for a period of maximum 44 months, which shall be implemented via a single Service Contract expected to commence in May 2024.
- Operation and maintenance of processing systems to generate CDR / ICDR datasets (unless these operations are supported by other initiatives).
- Implementation and/or improvement of operational production chain components as needed to achieve Full Operational Capacity.
- Provision of supporting documentation that describes the operational algorithms employed in dataset generation, outlines the results of quality assessments, and a user guide to assist users in the appropriate utilisation of the datasets.
- Contribution to the European State of the Climate, contingent upon the maturity and latency of the ECV data, or an alternative form of support for climate intelligence.
Procedure to be applied: The procurement will be conducted in accordance with ECMWF's procedures as set out in Invitation to Tender documents, which will be available on ECMWF's eProcurement Portal (https://procurement.ecmwf.int/) and no other procedures will apply. In submitting this notice ECMWF does not waive the privileges and immunities granted to it by virtue of its status as an intergovernmental organisation or submit itself to any jurisdiction. Tenders must be submitted using ECMWF's eProcurement Portal. Hard copy (paper) submissions will not be accepted.
Due to the need to include performance and compliance obligations in the contract, ECMWF will contract only with a single legal person or entity which is competent to undertake and commit to these obligations. ECMWF recognises that some bids will involve a number of organisations which may wish to work together to deliver the contract requirements. In such cases, these organisations must identify a lead contractor who will sign the contract with ECMWF and who will be responsible for putting in place legal arrangements to ensure that it can guarantee that all other organisations will also meet the contract obligations. ECMWF will not enter into multiple contracts with individual members of consortia or groups of service providers.
The time zone used to express the time in sections IV.2.2 and IV.2.7 is the Central European Time zone.


Award value: 2550000