Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

ECMWF as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for services related to operational service provision. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) aims to provide information to support the development of a climate resilient society. Through the Sectoral Information System (SIS), C3S has already 7 Proof of Concept elements (POCs) under development, addressing the needs of sectoral users in water, energy, insurance, agriculture and urban-management sectors in Europe. It is expected that building upon the experience gained from the POCs, a new set of operational services will be developed and delivered to address the sectors that are not served by the existing contracts. Lot 1 aims to develop a set of operational services able to provide relevant and high-impact climate information to users operating on a global scale, addressing sectors such as health, agriculture and food security, air and marine transport, tourism, biodiversity. The service will be designed to provide high-visibility to the development that is taking place within C3S. The service will build upon the experience acquired during the preparation of the proof of concept demonstrators that are being developed as part of the SIS but whilst those covered the European domain and focussed mainly on individual sectors, the service developed in the context of this Lot will need to be global and might have a broader scope across several sectors. This Contract Award Notice lists the Contractors for Lot 1 of ITT C3S_422 (Lot Title: Global Services). The Contractor for Contract no. ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2017/C3S_422_LOT1_OSM will deliver a set of operational climate services for the shipping industry. Working with sea captains and shipping companies the contract aims to extend the use of routing software to the seasonal time-scale whilst also looking at risks (e.g. icebergs) and opportunities (e.g. north passage) generated by a warmer world. The Contractor for Contract no. ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2017/C3S_422_LOT1_SMHI will deliver operational climate services addressing the needs of a varied set of communities all over the world. The Contractor having already engaged with national and sub-national organisations aims to develop climate services to their needs using the datasets and the tools available on the Climate Data Store. Among other things the contract will develop a global system able to make hydrological predictions as well as long-term projections. The Contractor for Contract no. ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2017/C3S_422_LOT1_WEnR will deliver a set of operational global climate services for the agricultural sector. The Contractor will look at the main stable crops (Maize, wheat, rice and barely) and, using a combination of local agricultural calendar and climate information, will predict the global crop yield for the season to come.