Request for Tenders for the provision of the hosting, maintenance, management, development and 24/7/365 support of Met Éireann's Weather Warning Solution.

Description

Met Éireann is looking to procure a weather warning solution which will allow operational forecast staff to create, update and issue weather and marine warnings, publish them on the Met Éireann digital channels with corresponding communication through SMS, email and push notifications. Warnings are currently issued at a county level in line with emergency response co-ordination. The weather warning solution will be provided by system and services, which must combine to ensure that the system is both operational and functional 24/7/365. The system will comprise of an application and supporting infrastructure which must have high availability, georesilience and disaster recovery/backup capability. The application will consist of an editor, where warnings can be created, managed and accessed, plus a core component which will send warning notifications on the appropriate channels once issued, and will have APIs which are used to display and manage the warnings through Met Éireann’s Digital System. The hosting infrastructure for the warning application core should have the ability to flex to deal with rapid increases in demand on the APIs. The services will comprise of technical support of the system and its integration with Met Éireann’s Digital System. The successful Tenderer will need to: 1. Set up suitable hosting infrastructure. 2. Deploy a new Weather Warning System 3. Integrate the new Weather Warning System with Met Éireann’s Digital System and switchover, allowing the existing Weather Warning System to move to operational EOL 4. Manage and support the Weather Warning Solution as it develops over the Contract term. Met Éireann is looking to procure a weather warning solution which will allow operational forecast staff to create, update and issue weather and marine warnings, publish them on the Met Éireann digital channels with corresponding communication through SMS, email and push notifications. Warnings are currently issued at a county level in line with emergency response co-ordination. The weather warning solution will be provided by system and services, which must combine to ensure that the system is both operational and functional 24/7/365. The system will comprise of an application and supporting infrastructure which must have high availability, georesilience and disaster recovery/backup capability. The application will consist of an editor, where warnings can be created, managed and accessed, plus a core component which will send warning notifications on the appropriate channels once issued, and will have APIs which are used to display and manage the warnings through Met Éireann’s Digital System. The hosting infrastructure for the warning application core should have the ability to flex to deal with rapid increases in demand on the APIs. The services will comprise of technical support of the system and its integration with Met Éireann’s Digital System. The successful Tenderer will need to: 1. Set up suitable hosting infrastructure. 2. Deploy a new Weather Warning System 3. Integrate the new Weather Warning System with Met Éireann’s Digital System and switchover, allowing the existing Weather Warning System to move to operational EOL 4. Manage and support the Weather Warning Solution as it develops over the Contract term.