RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · award

Met Office

Provision of Radar Antenna for C-Band Weather Radar on behalf of the Met Office

Business ServicesCPV 32352100
Value£189k
Awarded
Published6 Aug 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
STEATITE LIMITED
Awarded value£189k

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
procurement.enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£189ktotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£2.9m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Radio, TV & Communications Equipment band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 6,686 valued Radio, TV & Communications Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This procurement is for the supply and delivery of a Radar Antenna for C-Band Weather Radar, including a fully comprehensive 12-month warranty period commencing on the date of delivery at the Met Office installation site.

The requirement of a new weather radar in East Anglia is based on recommendations to improve the quality and coverage of the Met Office weather radar network.

The Environment Agency, which jointly funds the radar network in England and Wales, places great importance on weather radar data as an input to flood forecasting schemes.

The rainfall estimates from the weather radar network combined with other data sources are fed through to the flood risk models that are run by the Environment Agency.

Improvements in the quality of the initial estimates of rainfall are therefore reflected in the output of the flood forecast models, and this feeds through to the accuracy and the lead times of the warnings and advice that are issued.

Serious flood events prior to the 2001 review had raised concerns as to whether the existing radar network met the Met Office and Environment Agency's requirements in terms of quality of coverage.

As a result, the Weather Radar Network Review project was sponsored by the Environment Agency and the Met Office to review the quality of radar coverage and recommend how the network could be most effectively improved.

A weather radar in East Anglia will help improve the accuracy of the observations and forecasts by improving the coverage of 1-2km resolution radar data over East Anglia and to the north of London.

This is a one-off requirement for a dual polarisation C-band parabolic antenna.

It needs to meet specific requirements as it has a significant impact on the overall radar performance and is not easily changed once installed.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This procurement is for the supply

This procurement is for the supply and delivery of a Radar Antenna for C-Band Weather Radar, including a fully comprehensive 12-month warranty period commencing on the date of delivery at the Met Office installation site.

02

It needs to meet specific requirements as

It needs to meet specific requirements as it has a significant impact on the overall radar performance and is not easily changed once installed.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0582dc
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
046686-2025
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