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Met Office Academic Partnership Science Framework

The Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) is a cluster of research excellence bringing together the Met Office and leading UK Universities through a formal collaboration to advance the science and skill of weather and climate prediction.

Buyer

Met Office

Value

£8,000,000

Published

13 Oct 2022

Closes

13 Jun 2022

Procurement details

Source

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Region

Devon CC

Procurement method

Open

Category

Services

Contract starts

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Contract ends

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CPV classifications

73000000

Research and development services and related consultancy services

73100000

Research and experimental development services

73200000

Research and development consultancy services

73400000

Research and Development services on security and defence materials

Lots

Lot 1 Joint Chair Services

£1,600,000

To foster the Partnership the Met Office invests in jointly funded chairs (‘MOAP Joint Chair Services’) with partner Universities. Up to 8 Universities will be awarded a place on Lot 1 to deliver Joint Chair Services.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 2 Hazard to decision making

Value not provided

Hazard to Decision Making Research and Innovation Theme Expand and improve our services for stakeholders’ risk-based decision making by working with users, social scientists, behavioural scientists, financial impact experts and engineers to gain an increased understanding of the impacts of hazards and to develop better impact based services.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 3 Research to Production

Value not provided

Research to Production Theme Pull through developments in weather and climate research to improve our forecast systems, tailored to services in the forecasting timescales of primary interest to the Met Office and its customers.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 4 Producing, Refining and Delivering data

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Producing, Refining and Delivering data Theme Develop the Met Office supercomputing estate for operations and research, establish the technology and science needed to move, store and process our data, and design a flexible post-processing framework to turn predictions and observations into customer products.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 5 Seamless Environmental Prediction

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Seamless Environmental Prediction Theme Further develop our world-leading seamless environmental prediction capability, whereby a single model family is used in conjunction with observations and theory, to quantify weather hazards in the past, in present day climate and into the future across weather and climate timescales.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 6 Next Generation Modelling Systems

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Next Generation Modelling Systems Theme Revolutionise the Met Office’s complete weather and climate research and operational simulation systems so that the Met Office and its partners are ready to fully exploit future generations of supercomputer.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 7 Fusing Simulation with Data Sciences

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Fusing Simulation with Data Sciences Theme Use new and evolving data science methods such as artificial intelligence and machine learning and advanced data assimilation in order to remain at the cutting edge of weather and climate prediction and impact-based services.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 8 The Path to High Resolution

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The Path to High Resolution Theme In order to better predict hazards and extremes, develop the next generation of very high resolution global and regional environmental prediction systems, based on global convection-permitting atmosphere models coupled to eddy-resolving ocean models and eddy-permitting regional atmosphere models coupled to estuary-resolving...

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 9 Producing and Exploiting Ensembles

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In order to include forecasts of uncertainty at the heart of our endeavour, develop ensemble based systems and exploit them for prediction across timescales, while developing new and novel uses of ensemble information for improved understanding of weather and climate.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 10 Capturing Environmental Complexity

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Capturing Environmental Complexity Theme In order to pioneer new and improved impact based forecast services and advice on global climate change mitigation, extend our environmental prediction capability with a focus on cities, air quality, the water cycle, and carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 11 Technology Architecture and Innovation

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The Met Office is looking to develop a federated cloud data platform for Met Office and partner scientists and experts. This will mean developing appropriate standards for data and cloud service interoperability, enhancing opportunities for collaboration on weather and climate domain protocols, APIs, and architectures; and developing a high level platform se...

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 12 Advancing Observations

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The Met Office is seeking a step change in its observational capability to deliver what is needed in the 2030s through realising the value of third party and opportunistic observations. This will mean enhancing benefits from underpinning reference and baseline observation networks; systemically enabling access to non traditional and third party observational...

Delivery: United Kingdom

Lot 13 Co-Sponsorship Agreements

Value not provided

Co-Sponsorship Agreements may be available for up to 8 Universities (The same Universities who achieve a Joint Chair Services place on Lot 1). These agreements are approximately 10 in number per annum covering various jointly funded key personnel to support delivery of MOAP research projects.

Delivery: United Kingdom

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