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GMES-related contract awards

Several contract award announced in the domains of flood alert and land monitoring

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Three contract award decisions were announced on Tenders Electronic Daily during the period 24-31/12/11:

Operational computational centre of EFAS

The award decision has been taken in favour of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF for a total value of 2 929 961 EUR (excluding VAT).

The aim of this framework contract placed by the JRC is to progressively integrate parts of the European flood awareness system (EFAS) into the GMES emergency management service, in part under the GMES initial operation phase (GIO).

This framework contract considers the setting-up and implementation of the computational tasks related to the European flood awareness system and operation of the system on a guaranteed 24/7 basis thereafter together with associated testing, and research and development.

EFAS dissemination centre

The award decision has been taken in favour of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, for a total value of 1 022 000 EUR (excluding VAT).

The aim of the framework contract placed by the JRC is to progressively integrate parts of the European flood awareness system (EFAS) into the GMES emergency management service, in collaboration with the European Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) of DG ECHO.

This framework contract deals with the outsourcing of the dissemination of EFAS results. The contractor will analyse EFAS results as provided by the EFAS computational centre twice a day on a guaranteed 7/365 basis, consult on a daily basis the situation with the other EFAS centres, investigate the ongoing flood situation in Europe and issue flood early warning information to partners of the EFAS network including MIC. Furthermore, feedback on flood forecasts and performance of the system are being collected and EFAS annual meetings organised in close collaboration with the Joint Research Centre.

EFAS hydrological data collection centre

The award decision has been taken in favour of Elimco Sistemas s.l., for a total value of 550 000 EUR (excluding VAT).

The aim of this framework contract placed by the JRC is to progressively integrate parts of the European flood awareness system (EFAS) into the GMES emergency management service, in part under the GMES initial operation phase (GIO).

This contract refers to the EFAS hydrological data collection centre. The contractor will manage an existing network of data providers for real time hydrological data, set up the data collection system for discharge and water level, implement quality control on the real time data and send the data in agreed format to the Joint Research Centre.

Land monitoring services: high resolution land cover characteristics of 5 main land cover types

The framework contract consists of six lots. The award decision has been taken in favour of:

The framework contract aims at providing high resolution land cover characteristics data complementary to the Corine land cover map 2012 that will be produced in parallel by the European environmental observation and information network (Eionet) and the EEA from the same satellite data. The 5 high resolution layers deal with artificial surfaces, forest areas, agriculture areas, wetlands, water bodies for the reference year 2012. The production of the 5 high resolution layers (HRLs) as part of the GMES initial operations (GIO) pan-European land monitoring services will be organised as a mix of centralised production by industry and decentralised delivery by EEA member and cooperating countries.

The different lots address the following areas:

  • Lot 1: Imperviousness and forest in northern Europe
  • Lot 2: Imperviousness and forest in central Europe, ‘partim’ Atlantic region
  • Lot 3: Imperviousness and forest in central Europe, ‘partim’ Alpine, continental, and Pannonian region
  • Lot 4: Imperviousness and forest in southern Europe, ‘partim’ west and central Mediterranean region
  • Lot 5: Imperviousness and forest in southern Europe, ‘partim’ east Mediterranean region
  • Lot 6: Grasslands, wetlands and water bodies in the EEA39

Source GMES.Info