Met Eireann

Met Éireann maintains a national infrastructure of instrumentation for monitoring meteorological and environmental observations and measurements. Many of these are at unmanned locations and are referred to as Automatic Weather Stations (AWS), where the data is processed for inclusion into synoptic code by data loggers. Visibility and present weather observations form part of this remit and specialist sensors are used for the detection, identification and measurement of the relevant parameters. Instruments incorporating some or all of these sensors are referred to as Present Weather Sensors (PWS) and will be referred to “PWS” in this and any associated documentation. As many of these PSWs have reached their anticipated end of service life, Met Éireann is proposing to buy replacement and additional instruments, through this RFT, in addition to procuring ancillaries, spares, training and support.

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Met Éireann, Ireland's National Meteorological Service, is looking for a company/organisation to supply a lightning detection network ("LDN") detailing number and location of lightning strikes in the Republic Of Ireland.

Met Éireann invites quotations for the supply of Meteorological Weather Balloons and parachutes to facilitate radiosonde flights, both automatically and manually launched. The balloons should be suitable for use with helium and hydrogen lifting gases, the Vaisala AS41 Autosonde system and the associated Vaisala RS41-SG radiosondes, and also including the use of additional heavier ozone sensing payloads at Valentia Observatory. Currently 600grm balloons are used in the Autosonde and 1200 gramme balloons with external parachutes are used for the manually launched Ozone ascents. Tenders should also bid for various other balloon size options as well as for balloons with internal parachutes as technological changes and flight requirements may lead to lighter payloads and decent data being required.

This Prior Information Notice is to inform the market that Met Éireann plans to issue an open tender seeking a qualified Managed Service Provider (MSP) to supply, implement, migrate, manage, support, secure, and evolve Met Éireann’s ICT infrastructure and services. To align with Met Éireann’s Strategic Plan 2024–2034, this will include the delivery of a modern, resilient, dual-site ICT Infrastructure and applications. This will require the migration of one of Met Éireann’s current data centres to a new site. The services required will include a mix of on-premise and cloud infrastructure for compute and storage, networking, security and managed service capability for both operational and research environments. It should be noted that Met Eireann services are expected to be classed as critical national infrastructure and essential services under the upcoming Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Regulations implementation. As such, all services must be available on a 24*7*365 basis. Additionally, this will include the management of Met Éireann’s Windows and LINUX estates including servers, endpoints and all associated operating systems and software, including Microsoft applications.

The Services will be for a qualified Managed Service Provider to supply, implement, migrate, manage, support, secure, and evolve Met Éireanns' ICT infrastructure and services. Met Eireann's services are expected to be classed as critical national infrastructure and essential services under the upcoming Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Regulations implementation. The required services will have to be available on a 24x7x365 basis.

The delivery, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of five new [Dual Polarisation Weather Radars Systems] (“Weather Radar(s)”and “Radar(s)”) at five greenfield sites in Ireland (“Site(s)”) together with the provision of documentation and training for such Radars.

CFT for provision of weather radar maintenance.