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Met Office

DN709839 - The Supply of Meteorological Balloons and Parachutes

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38120000
Value£900k
Awarded20 Mar 2024
Published6 Feb 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£900ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£972k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Met Office wishes to tender for its meteorological balloons and parachutes requirements and is looking for a supplier who could provide products to satisfy one or more of the product lots.

The procurement opportunity is advertised on the Government Contracts Finder site and ProContract portal.

Suppliers who are interested in participating in this tender exercise must register their company free of charge on the ProContract eTendering portal by following this link: https://procontract.due-north.com/register and search for project reference DN709839 for more information.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Met Office wishes to tender

The Met Office wishes to tender for its meteorological balloons and parachutes requirements and is looking for a supplier who could provide products to satisfy one or more of the product lots.

02

Suppliers who are interested in participating in

Suppliers who are interested in participating in this tender exercise must register their company free of charge on the ProContract eTendering portal by following this link: https://procontract.due-north.com/register and search for project reference DN709839 for more information.

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Source & provenance
OCID
33da35f0-a820-4409-801c-c5278c81c596
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
METOFC001-DN709839-92135994
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