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Space Weather Delivery Partner
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01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £15,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Tue 19 Aug 2025, 14:00 BSTClosed.
- Published
- 15 Jul 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The Met Office owns the Severe Space Weather Risk on the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) and receives funding from the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) to deliver a core national space weather capability to inform mitigation against the worst effects by government and critical sectors.
Given the prominence of the severe space weather as a 'significant' risk on the UK Government's NSRA and the higher than anticipated activity in this solar cycle, cross-government activity has increased putting greater demands and requirements on Met Office. Increased funding has been secured to resource these more demanding requirements focussed on improving UK preparedness for any future severe space weather event.
Met Office Technology team is looking to supplement its internal resources to support and advise the Space Weather programme from the technical perspective. The resources to be provided by the Delivery Partner will work in a blended team and will be supported by Met Office internal technical, product and delivery management leadership.
The Met Office require resources to develop, support, maintain and improve our Space Weather portfolio and associated technologies. We're looking for skills that align to the GDaD Profession Capability Framework
The successful supplier will be expected to supply a suitable development team with the capacity to take immediate ownership of the support and delivery of the Met Office Space Weather portfolio. Note that a period of dual contract running is planned in order to ensure an effective handover of assets and domain knowledge.
The contract will be a non exclusive contract delivered via Statements of Work on time and materials, capped time and materials and a hybrid pricing model using capped time and materials and fixed cost elements for appropriate SoW's.
The incumbent Space Weather Delivery Partner contract is due to complete in March 2026, therefore the Met Office wishes to engage with the Market to procure a replacement Delivery Partner contract.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 72000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
8 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 13 Mar 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 13 March 2025.
Release 009247-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 13 Jun 2025Tender notice
Tender notice published 13 June 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Deadline in this release: Tue 22 Jul 2025, 14:00 BST.
Release 032126-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 16 Jun 2025Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 16 June 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Deadline in this release: Tue 22 Jul 2025, 14:00 BST.
Release 032440-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 16 Jun 2025Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 16 June 2025. The source does not state what changed.
Deadline in this release: Tue 22 Jul 2025, 14:00 BST.
Release 032454-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 4 Jul 2025Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 4 July 2025. Stated change: Tender submission deadline extended to 19 August 2025 - 14:00hrs Clarification deadline extended to 8 August 2025 - 16:00hrs
Deadline in this release: Tue 19 Aug 2025, 14:00 BST.
Release 037494-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 15 Jul 2025Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 15 July 2025. The source does not state what changed.
Deadline in this release: Tue 19 Aug 2025, 14:00 BST.
Release 039837-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 17 Dec 2025Notice
Notice published 17 December 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 083686-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 19 Mar 2026Notice
Notice published 19 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 024928-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ecd5
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 20:25 BST
- Read at
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 04:50 BST
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