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 services related to operational service provision. C3S aims to provide information to support the development of a climate resilient society. Through the Sectoral Information System (SIS), C3S has already procured 7 Proof of Concept elements (POCs), addressing the needs of sectoral users in water, energy, insurance, agriculture and urban-management sectors in Europe. In addition, in 2017 ECMWF built upon the experience gained from the POC contracts, and signed a further 7 operational services that will address user requirements in the following areas: — European services for health, — coasts, fisheries (marine) and — tourism, as well as global services addressing hydrology, agriculture and shipping. The existing SIS contracts are developing datasets and tools based on the Climate Data Store (CDS) infrastructure. Outputs include Global, European and regional Climate Impact Indicators (CII), Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) and tools, Python scripts built using the CDS python libraries that run on the CDS Toolbox, to develop user driven, sector specific services. The SIS shall fulfil the following 3 top-level requirements: 1. To provide a working example of how the data and the tools available on the 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 Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is fully compliant with the first of these top-level requirements. Activities shall be performed in the context of a Framework Agreement with 2 service contracts (maximum duration of 24 months and an end date not later than 31.12.2020). The kick-off of the first service contract is expected to take place in Q1 of 2019.