AwardedAwarded 1 September 2025

Weather Forecasting and Weather Station Bureau Services

The North Yorkshire Council · Local authority

In brief

The North Yorkshire Council awarded architecture and engineering and IT and software work to Metdesk Limited and Vaisala Limited on 1 September 2025.

It is split into 2 lots, so a supplier can bid for part of the work.

Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.

What the notice says

To procure this service through an Open procedure and establish two contracts encompassing the Winter Forecasting and Bureau Service elements across the council area. A variant option for a combined offer will also be included as these projects will be offered to the market in tandem. From the market research there are some suppliers in the market who could fulfil both contracts and there could be opportunity to delivery efficiencies from a variant. Any variant will only be reviewed one the compliant bids have been evaluated and provisional preferred supplier identified

Lots

LotTradeValue
Weather Forecasting
What this lot covers

To procure this service through an Open procedure and establish two contracts, one for the Weather Forecasting Service and one for Weather Station Bureau Service.

Architecture and engineering—
Weather Station Bureau Services
What this lot covers

To procure this service through an Open procedure and establish two contracts encompassing the Winter Forecasting and Bureau Service elements across the council area.

IT services and software, Laboratory and scientific equipment—

Who won

WinnerLotValueDates
Metdesk Limited (SME)—£542,518
Vaisala Limited (SME)—£907,060

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Contract award notice · notice 060783-2025

About the buyer

Procurements

499

Awards

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From notice 060783-2025 on Find a Tender, first published 30 September 2025. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.