Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-09-16
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 73000000
Estimated value: 600000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-11-07
Award criteria: quality, price
EU fund: eu-funds

Technical requirements: ECMWF and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) have a close partnership with the aim to stimulate the uptake of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) products and services in the Mediterranean region. ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for C3S and CAMS, in partnership with the UfM, invites tenders for demonstrator cases to support renewable energy transition across the Mediterranean. UfM’s remit includes activities that facilitate and promote regional dialogue, cooperation and regional integration in the fields of Energy and Climate Action in the Mediterranean region. Through advancing towards more secure and sustainable energy models, UfM is helping to foster climate resilient societies. To this end, this Invitation to Tender (ITT) seeks to promote the uptake of high-quality environmental and climate datasets, promoting data and information services which can help inform decisions and, or policies with the domain of energy, promoting the transition to a green economy.
Service shall be performed on Contractor's premises, located either in a European Union Member State or in a Copernicus Participating State. For this specific ITT, entities established in Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) can participate in a subcontractor capacity.
Quality of Resources (including Track Record of the entities involved)
Please refer to ECMWF's Procurement Debriefing and Review Procedure published at the ECMWF Suppliers webpage (https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/suppliers ).
This ITT is for “Demonstrator Case” contracts that, based on regional policy and linked energy market insight, will develop and demonstrate solutions to empower users throughout the Mediterranean region to stimulate and facilitate the integration of CAMS and/or C3S data into existing or new solutions to enhance development of renewable energies in the region. Demonstration tools should support decision-making processes, potentially in combination with other Copernicus data, meteorological data and other sectoral, or socio-economic information and data. The objective of these contracts is to stimulate innovative ideas for the exploitation of Copernicus data, promote knowledge exchange and community shaping with a goal of supporting the uptake and growth of renewable energy in and across the Mediterranean. Activities shall realise demonstration cases which illustrate potential uptake and inspire other initiatives in the region. This ITT seeks to promote the transition to net-zero, enhance national capacities in partner countries, and work towards climate resilience across the Mediterranean. Working with the UfM, ECMWF promotes with this ITT the empowerment of users in the promotion on the use of CAMS and C3S data in scope of investments in renewable energies in those countries and regions which have reliance on fossil fuels and capacity to transition to a lower carbon future. To facilitate this, entities from Copernicus contributing countries (Copernicus Participating Countries include all EU Member States, as well as Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom) are encouraged to lead the bids, partnering with eligible entities based in non-EU / non-Copernicus contributing countries as subcontractors.