Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

Some of the biggest challenges our society faces are related to climate change and the impact this will have on the environment and on our own activities. The increasing concentration of the greenhouse gases is a prominent driver of a changing climate, but the extent of their impacts is sector dependent and generally more difficult to characterise. In order to build a climate proof society, we need to improve the way in which climate datasets are processed and used to inform decisions in different businesses and societal sectors. The Copernicus Climate change service (C3S) has been developed to meet these needs, aiming at supporting policymakers, businesses and citizens through the provision of high-quality usable information. The Service consolidates many years of preparatory research and development and delivers through the Climate data store a long list of quality-controlled and operationally-produced climate relevant datasets. This ITT is for “Use Case” contracts that, based on market analysis, will develop and demonstrate end-to-end Applications based on C3S products and the tools provided by the CDS infrastructure. The objective of such contracts is to stimulate innovative ideas and support the development of downstream applications based on C3S data and associated infrastructure. ECMWF expects that individual bids in the range between 100 000 and 250 000 EUR will be adequate to achieve the objectives of this call, depending on the scope of the proposed use case. Nevertheless, ECMWF may consider bids outside of that range if duly justified by the bidder. Within this ITT, ECMWF aims to select use-cases addressing a representative set of C3S products and targeting a wide range of societal sectors. Notwithstanding the above, bids addressing the needs for cultural heritage and forestry sector would be welcome in a first instance. Such an encouragement should be considered active until suitable use cases in these areas have been awarded (C3S website will provide updated information on this).