Provision of a secondary ISP service
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) intends to issue an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for an IP Transit service to complement its current external connectivity capabilities. ECMWF relies on external network connectivity for acquisition of observation data, the dissemination of operational data products, and external access to services hosted in its Bologna Data Centre. Currently this includes a resilient 100 Gbps IP transit service provided by the GARR consortium and, historically, a lower-c...
Buyer
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Value
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Published
13 Aug 2026
Closes
10 Sept 2026
Procurement details
Source
TED (EU)
Country
Italy (IT)
Procurement method
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Category
Services
Contract starts
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Contract ends
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CPV classifications
72411000
Internet service providers ISP
Lots
Lot PAR-0001 Provision of a secondary ISP service
Value not provided
ECMWF uses IP networking in its Data Centre located at the Tecnopolo in Bologna. The Data Centre IP Fabrics interconnect all the subsystems critical to data assimilation and production, such as the supercomputing facility, storage systems and on-prem cloud services. Operational meteorological data products, produced on precise schedule multiple times per day...
Delivery: Bologna · ITH55 · Italy
Documents
Unlock document linkTED notice 562295-2026
13 Aug 2026
Planned procurement notice · Web page
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