Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-03-07
Buyer: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 73000000
Estimated value: 2375892.72 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for the Destination Earth Programme (DestinE), issued five contracts for the provision of DestinE Use Cases.
The overall objective of the contracts under this procurement is to demonstrate the value of the Destination Earth (DestinE) Digital Twins (DT) in different impact sectors and guide and influence the development of the Digital twins.
Contract No ECMWF/DESTINE/2022/DE_370a_Deltares aims at demonstrating the integration of regional coastal and inland models and local flood models in different regions, including in the Basque Country, the UK, La Reunion, the Dutch Caribbean Islands (BES Islands) and the Philippines, to manage compound flood risk. The regional models will use high-resolution DT Extremes and in some cases also DT Climate data and configure transferable workstreams that provide actionable information to end users. The contract implements a co-design approach engaging local stakeholders in the design.
Contract No ECMWF/DESTINE/2022/DE_370b_DLR aims at setting up a workflow on DestinE that couples the energy system model REMIX with the output and interfaces of the DT Climate. In doing so the contract will demonstrate the use of DestinE for electricity grid extension planning and adequacy assessments. The contract has a strong element of stakeholder engagement, aiming to involve energy system stakeholders in the nascent DestinE community.
Contract No ECMWF/DESTINE/2022/DE_370c_FZJ aims at setting up a workflow on DestinE that couples the air quality model EURAD-IM with the DT on-demand extremes. To this end the work includes containerizing the EURAD-IM model and running it on EuroHPC machines, notably LUMI. The contract will demonstrate the use of DestinE for public entities’ management of air quality extremes in two selected test regions, North-Rhine Westphalia and Berlin/Brandenburg. The contract has a strong element of stakeholder engagement, aiming to involve LANUV and UBA as local stakeholders and further interested stakeholders in the nascent DestinE community.
Contract No ECMWF/DESTINE/2022/DE_370d_FMI further develops the existing HarvesterSeasons service by testing higher-resolution (1 km) input data and using climate projections to extend the service for decadal information. The contract will implement technical interfaces to DestinE System Components, further develop a front end for forestry users, and develop new Machine Learning (ML) methods, notably for downscaling model output to the resolution required by forestry users (tens of meters). Finnish user communities are strongly engaged.
Contract No ECMWF/DESTINE/2022/DE_370e_VITO aims to provide present and future high-resolution urban heat maps for cities across Europe to underpin and support urban climate adaptation measures that are being developed within the EU’s cohesion policy and the development of EU policies related to the urban environment. The urban heat maps will be generated by means of a physics-based urban climate model, URBCLIM, drawing on data from DT Climate and other data available via DEDL. DG Regio is engaged as the primary policy user. Also, two cities will be selected in which local authorities will be involved to confirm and demonstrate the value at city level.


Winner: Stichting Deltares
Award value: 2375892.72
Number of bids: 16