Space Weather Delivery Partner

Description

The Met Office owns the Severe Space Weather Risk on the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) and receives funding from the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) to deliver a core national space weather capability to inform mitigation against the worst effects by government and critical sectors. Given the prominence of the severe space weather as a ‘significant’ risk on the UK Government’s NSRA and the higher than anticipated activity in this solar cycle, cross-government activity has increased putting greater demands and requirements on Met Office. Increased funding has been secured to resource these more demanding requirements focussed on improving UK preparedness for any future severe space weather event. Met Office Technology team is looking to supplement its internal resources to support the Space Weather programme from the technical perspective in full. For a number of years an external Delivery Partner has been used in a blended team supported by Met Office internal leadership team, and the intention is continue with this model of delivery The incumbent Space Weather Delivery Partner contract is due to complete in March 2026, however there is the potential for the replacement contract to commence in Q4 of 2025 due to the complex nature of the handover. The Met Office wishes to engage with the Market to procure a replacement Delivery Partner contract. Met Office wishes to speak to the market to gain their insights and experience in this field which may be fed into the development and make-up of the Space Weather Delivery Partner solution. Met Office intends to hold a Supplier Market Engagement event on 1st April 2025, this will be a virtual event. In advance of this event, we will be issuing a draft specification, a Space Weather Early Market Engagement document and a Request for information (RFI) document, this will be no later than 21st March 25 via the Met Office ProContract portal Supplier registration. The RFI will contain a number of questions we would like responses to, the RFI return date will be the 11th April 2025 The documents will be published and available via the Met Office ProContract portal and potential suppliers will have the option to ask clarification questions during this Market Engagement period. To register attendance for the virtual Market Engagement event and to access the relevant information relating to this Space Weather Delivery Partner Market Engagement, potential suppliers must register on the Met Office ProContract Portal – Supplier registration Please Note: This information will not be available via any other source. For any system issues related to registration or accessing the opportunity on the Met Office ProContract Portal please contact the ProContract Helpdesk - by emailing the ProContract support team - ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com Keywords: IT consultancy services, software development, internet, support