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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: EARLY MARKET ENGAGEMENT AND RFI FOR PARABOLIC C-BAND ANTENNA WITH DUAL POLARISATION FEED INCLUDING A SCALAR HORN
2. Awarding Authority: Met Office, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, GB, Devon, EX1 3PB. Tel: 07764486652. Email: karyn.marsdenjones@metoffice.gov.uk. (Karyn Jones)
3. Contract type: Supply contract
4. Description: The Awarding Authority designed, manufactured, installed and now runs a network of 15 C-band weather radars. These are spread across the Specified Location and run 24/7. They are a critical part of the Met Office observing infrastructure, allowing us to obtain near-real time information about precipitation in the atmosphere. The data collected is used for a whole range of purposes numerical weather forecasting, nowcasting, specialist products to aviation and defence and for verification. We will be installing a new radar at a new secured site in the Old Buckenham, East Anglia in spring 2025 and require a new antenna for this radar. The performance of the antenna has a significant impact on the overall radar performance, so the antenna specification has high requirements, particularly regarding gain, beam width and cross-polar isolation.
The Met Office wishes to explore the route to market, request for information and undertake early market engagement with potential suppliers who could provide an antenna to satisfy the requirement as detailed in the attached document.
We are looking for information from organisations that may be able to support us by supplying an antenna which meets the requirement as detailed in the attached document.
We are specifically looking for organisations to detail their capabilities in this market, to help us to understand what options may be available to us in determining the optimal solution(s) in terms of cost, quality, sustainability and timescales for manufacture and testing.
If you’d like to submit a response to us, please do so by emailing your documentation to karyn.marsdenjones@metoffice.gov.uk and rachel.wickerson@metoffice.gov.uk We’re looking to receive submissions by 17:00 BST on the 16th September 2024.
If you require any further information to help you to submit a more meaningful response, please contact karyn.marsdenjones@metoffice.gov.uk and rachel.wickerson@metoffice.gov.uk by 17:00 BST on 3rd September 2024.
Along with your response to the questions listed in the attached document, please feel free to include any suggestions on further information that you would like to see as part of any future procurement which would aid you in providing a quality submission.
5. CPV Code(s): 38000000, 35722000
6. NUTS code(s): UK, UKK, UKK4, UKK43, UKH, UKH1, UKH15
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Region(s) of supply United Kingdom
Old Buckenham, East Anglia
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Opportunity Id DN738100
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Expression of interest end date 16.9.2024 (17:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:
12. Other information: Keywords parabolic c-band antenna, weather radar, Antenna
Key dates
Estimated contract dates
Start date 01/01/2025
End date 01/07/2025
Please visit the website above for documentation
TKR-2024816-EX-1780829