Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

ECMWF as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) invites tenders for the development of an operational water service that builds upon the experience acquired during the pre-operational phase of the Sectoral Information System (SIS). During the course of 2016 seven contracts were issued by ECMWF to develop POC (proof of concept) demonstrators addressing the needs of specific sectors prioritised by ECMWF. Two contracts were awarded in the water sector (http://climate.copernicus.eu/sectoral-information-system#water). Given that at that time the Climate Data Store was not yet available, these contracts developed services using platforms and data streams which were largely independent from the C3S data infrastructure. An operational SIS for the water sector is expected to fulfil the following three top level requirements: 1. To provide a working example of how the data and the tools available on the Climate Data Store (CDS) could be used in specific user relevant contexts. 2. To engage with the users to scope out and document what they need. 3. To provide examples of good practice in the development of climate services. A key requirement of this Invitation to Tender is to ensure that the operational SIS for the water sector is fully compliant with the first of these top level requirements, providing a single framework able to account for the seasonal and multi-decadal data streams generated by the two POC contracts in addition to those generated by another Copernicus Service, the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS).