C3S2_313g Products and Services for additional ECVs in the Land and Ocean Domains

C3S2_313g

ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), invites Tenders aiming to expand the scope of climate information delivered in the Land and Ocean domains by incorporating products and services for additional Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) split into five distinct Lots, specifically for Sea Surface Salinity (Lot 1), Permafrost (Lot 2), Above-Ground Biomass (Lot 3), Surface Albedo (Lot 4), Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fAPAR) (Lot 5). The purpose of this Invitation to Tender (ITT) is the provision of operational services aimed at ensuring dependable access to high-quality, consistent, and globally homogeneous satellite climate data products via the Climate Data Store (CDS). The services shall include the following technical activities: (•) Operation and maintenance of processing systems to generate CDR / ICDR datasets (unless these operations are supported by other initiatives). (•) Implementation and/or improvement of operational production chain components as needed to achieve Full Operational Capacity. (•) Provision of access to datasets via the CDS. (•) Quality assurance and validation of the resulting datasets. (•) Provision of supporting documentation that describes the operational algorithms employed in dataset generation, outlines the results of quality assessments, and a user guide to assist users in the appropriate utilisation of the datasets. (•) Maintenance of metadata describing CDR datasets and their associated documentation. (•) Provision of user support services. (•) Contribution to the European State of the Climate, contingent upon the maturity and latency of the ECV data, the upcoming C3S climate dashboard, or an alternative form of support for climate intelligence. For each Lot, ECMWF intends to award a single Framework Agreement for a period of 30 months, which shall be implemented via a single Service Contract (unless multiple Lots are awarded to the same Tenderer) expected to commence in January 2026. Tenderers are invited to submit their Tenders for any one of the Lots, or any combination of multiple Lots (with each submission to be done separately). Participation in multiple Lots in a non-lead capacity (e.g. as a subcontractor or supporting entity) is also permitted. The evaluation of bids will be conducted per Lot.

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The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

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