Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

ECMWF as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) plans to invite tenders for a number of services related to collection and processing of in situ observations in support of climate services development. The overall objective for this set of services is to improve access to available in situ instrumental data records and data streams from observing networks, as needed for monitoring climate change and to support climate science. The C3S has the ambition to provide open and free access to all observations relevant to climate services development via a unified Climate Data Store. Development of observational content for the Climate Data Store relies on the scientific framework provided by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Goals to be addressed by the services tendered include: improvement of the historic instrumental record by means of data rescue, quality control and homogenisation of in situ observations; harmonisation of access to data from major archives of climate observations as well as specialised networks of observing sites; development of merged collections of in situ observations suitable for climate reanalysis; development of high-resolution ECV products for Europe. Framework agreements of up to 48 months will be issued in four Lots: — Lot 1: Coordination of data rescue activities; — Lot 2: Access to global climate data archives; — Lot 3: Access to networks of observation sites; — Lot 4: In situ data products for Europe. Multiple suppliers may be selected within Lot 2 and Lot 3.