Official UK procurement notice
Space Weather R2O2R - BAS
Authority: Met Office (Central government)
Sectors: Research & Development (R&D) (73) Delivery: North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)
Awarded value£158,000published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 4 Sept 2025no call for competition
Awarded to NERC UK LTD, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBAS 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.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Jun 2025, 11:45 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Apr 2026, 11:50 BST
- Authority reference
DN778927- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-030800- Latest notice
- Contract termination notice (UK11)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055404Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Prototypes Development; Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
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 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. 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 the model.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 Sept 2025 → 2 Apr 2026 · 2 dates- Standstill ends15 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Notice published208 days ago2 Apr 2026, 11:50 BST
Notice history
5 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 Jun 2025- Transparency notice published26 Jun 2025, 11:45 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published4 Sept 2025, 15:27 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected18 Sept 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published1 Oct 2025, 11:27 BSTUK7
- Contract termination notice published2 Apr 2026, 11:50 BSTUK11
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-06: 1 release · 26 Jun 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £158,0001 award exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 17 Sept 2025
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| NERC UK LTD, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTERjoint award18 Sept 2025 – 31 Mar 2026 | £158,000 | 4 Sept 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · NERC UK LTD, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
- Signed
- 17 Sept 2025
- Value
- £158,000
- Period
- 18 Sept 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
- Status
- terminated
- Final value
- £157,876
- Termination
- contractCompleted
3 agreed KPIs: Delivery of a stable Sat-Risk running in the beta environment of the Met Office portal. Including refactored repos, Dictat implemented for GOES and displays of Galileo and Sentinel-6 data. · Delivery of a comprehensive instruction manual containing clear and detailed instructions how to build and run the application. Assume the readership of this manual to be at the level of a scientific software engineer. · Final report on work completed
- Delivery of a stable Sat-Risk running in the beta environment of the Met Office portal. Including refactored repos, Dictat implemented for GOES and displays of Galileo and Sentinel-6 data.
- Delivery of a comprehensive instruction manual containing clear and detailed instructions how to build and run the application. Assume the readership of this manual to be at the level of a scientific software engineer.
- Final report on work completed
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- British Antarctic SurveyAwarded supplier
- NERC UK LTDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract termination notice Contract termination notice on Find a Tender
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender