Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Shinfield Park
Reading
RG2 9AX
UK
Contact person: Procurement at ECMWF
E-mail: procurement@ecmwf.int
NUTS: UKJ11
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.ecmwf.int/
Address of the buyer profile: http://procurement.ecmwf.int/
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
European institution/agency or international organisation
I.5) Main activity
Other: Meteorological services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Copernicus C3S_34e The Link between the CDS Toolbox and the ESGF Compute Nodes: Design and Implementation
Reference number: C3S_34e
II.1.2) Main CPV code
73000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), issued a contract for designing an interface between the C3S Climate Data Store (CDS) Toolbox and the WPS (Web Processing Service) processes running at the ESGF (Earth System Grid Federation) nodes, to provide diagnostics based on the climate projection datasets available in the CMIP and CORDEX archives.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
417 636.00
EUR
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
00
Main site or place of performance:
On contractor's premises.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
This contract builds on the WPS framework already developed by the partners in previous contracts. The objective of this framework agreement is to provide a reliable and robust WPS service by addressing three key areas: the low-level operations will be thoroughly tested, the processes will be pre-tested against a significant sample of the input datasets, and the deployed architecture will be resilient and scalable. It will build a comprehensive system for validating the mathematical operations and testing the processes against a significant coverage of the supported datasets and hence will focus on the quality-assured subset of CMIP and CORDEX data already supported by other C3S contracts. A significant strength of the solution developed in this Framework Agreement is its compatibility with the CDS toolbox design and technical implementation: close collaboration with the C3S CDS team ensures that the outcome of this contract will be useable in the CDS infrastructure, on CDS data, from the beginning.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Legal and financial
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Track record
/ Weighting: 15
Quality criterion: Quality of resources to be deployed
/ Weighting: 15
Quality criterion: Technical solution proposed
/ Weighting: 30
Quality criterion: Management and implementation
/ Weighting: 20
Price
/ Weighting:
15
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2019/S 151-372628
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2019/C3S_34e_STFC-UKRI
Title: Copernicus C3S_34e The Link between the CDS Toolbox and the ESGF Compute Nodes: Design and Implementation
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
23/12/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Science and Technology Facilities Council as part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Polaris House, North Star avenue
Swindon
SN2 1SZ
UK
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://stfc.ukri.org/
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 417 636.00
EUR
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Shinfield Park
Reading
RG2 9AX
UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/suppliers
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
See instructions on ECMWF's Suppliers web page: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/suppliers
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Shinfield Park
Reading
RG2 9AX
UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/suppliers
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
05/03/2020