Fancy re-engineering code used to ‘simulate weather and climate’ for the next generations of supercomputers?
UK weather forecasting agency the Met Office is tendering for delivery partners to help it build its data platform over the next four years in a framework deal that could be worth £30m. The main objective of getting new suppliers on board as part of the four-year deal is to help build a common Met Office data platform, exploiting the future of data sciences, and a common approach to customer data services, according to a tender notice from the publicly owned executive agency of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Founded in 1854, the Met Office provides commercial weather data, as well as public services, and its business group accrued a £2.2m profit on £24.5m of revenue in the financial year 2019/20. The total revenue of the weather and climate research organisation was £249m in that year. In the tender announcement, first trailed in the market last year, the Met Office said it was looking to put together a framework with a number of companies to help in its data «transformation», both by bringing new skills and knowledge and by bolstering the capacity and capability of existing Met Office teams.
