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Tender Details
- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Iridium Satellite Modem Supply
- GBT Ref No: 114924636
- Deadline: 31 Mar 2025
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: Refer Document
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.: DN757572
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- Marine Systems Engineering (MSE) in the Met Office maintain a network automatic weather stations consisting of moored buoys in the North Atlantic Ocean, Light Vessels in the English Channel and Voluntary Observation Ships.
This network was originally established in the 1990-s and remains a key component of our well characterised and high quality ‘reference- capability, providing much valued observations for operational forecasting, climate monitoring and key calibration data for meteorological satellites.
Marine Observation data is currently transmitted hourly over the Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) satellite network using now obsolete Iridium 9522b SBD modems. Observations are limited to hourly due to the cost of Iridium satellite SBD data plans.
The next generation of Iridium-s Satellite service and modems have been released in the last 2 years, with the monthly data costs of Iridium-s Certus 100 service being significantly cheaper per megabyte than the SBD network costs. Exploitation of the Certus
Region(s) of supply :United Kingdom
Estimated value :N/A
Categories :32530000-7 - Satellite-related communications equipment
32552410-4 - Modems
34930000-5 - Marine equipment
Last Date of Submission : 31/03/2025 12:00:00 - Documents :
Purchaser : MET OFFICE
Fitzroy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom
Contact Name :Alison Browning
Telephone :000000
Email :alison.browning@metoffice.gov.uk
Email :alison.browning@metoffice.gov.uk
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