Space Weather R2O Maintenance - BGS (UKRI)
Buyer: Met Office
- Published
- 8 July 2026
- Estimated value
- £242,000
- Place of performance
- UK
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 064100-2026
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-06c29f
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 73100000Research and experimental development services
Description
'Space Weather Implementation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk' (SWIMMR), was a £19.9m UKRI SPF funded programme led by STFC from 2019, and which largely concluded in 2023. Several of the projects were targeted at space weather scientific modelling gaps, with the aim of bringing them into operation for forecast capabilities in the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC). The project 'S3' stood up systems and enabled collaboration between academic partners and the Met Office space weather programme, bringing a platform 'sandbox environment' and portal for monitoring outputs into use at the Met Office (MO) where our scientists worked with several academic partners to bring their models into use. Whilst the original SWIMMR programme made this collaboration possible, there is much work remaining to bring the models into working operational use by the target date of September 2026, the Research to Operations to Research (R2O2R) project is the next stage in this Programme. The Space Weather CSA with the Department for Science and Technology (DSIT) sets out a required output for the Met Office to Support the validation, integration and exploitation of new capabilities and dat…
Awards
| Awarded to | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|
| British Geological Survey | — | — |
Official publications
- FTS · 064100-2026 · 8 July 2026
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