Future of Operational Meteorology (FoOM) Tools and Systems

<p>We are looking for partners to work with us to innovate our tools and visualisation systems to a new level of capability, using the very latest technologies for viewing, interpreting and creating the next generation of meteorological services. As a result of three early market engagements, the Met Office has arrived at the current contract scope.</p>
<p>This opportunity is for a contract for up to 8 years and covers the following four separate Lots-</p>
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<p><strong>Lot 1</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Visualisation &amp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Graphical Production</strong></p>
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<p>Exposes increasingly large quantities of meteorological data to enable meteorologists to forecast and report the weather to a range of customers, both internal and external and across global markets.</p>
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<p>Allows meteorologists to interact with graphical data as part of the production process. This will provide the ability to create graphical outputs overlaid on data visualisations.</p>
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<p><strong>Lot 2</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Templated Production</strong></p>
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<p>Enables the creation of large numbers of products in predefined formats, to include the automatic and manual population of those products using meteorological data, imagery, and text.</p>
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<p><strong>Lot 3</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Product Distribution</strong></p>
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<p>Responsible for the distribution of meteorological products to their intended recipients &ndash; both internal and external.</p>
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<p><strong>Lot 4</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Workflow Automation</strong></p>
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<p>Manages allocation of work to Operational Meteorologists - balancing workload across available resource.&nbsp; Improves user experience and efficiency by choreographing processes and launching the tools for the task to be performed.</p>
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