Buyer
Met Office tenders and contracts
Covering 600+ buyer sites · 5 years of records · Contracts awarded in the 24 months to 11 October 2026 · Updated 11 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 550
- Last 24 months
- Median contract
- £45k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £153m
- 538 of 550 have a published value
- Suppliers
- 311
- Won its contracts
- Tenders open now
- 1
- Closing soonest below
- Ending in 12 months
- 155
- Contracts with a recorded end date
Compiled by BidSkim from Met Office’s published notices. Not an official Met Office page.
Also appears in official records as “Meteorological Office”.
Open tenders
Closing soonest. The official notice has the documents and the deadline.
- Mooring Ropes and Thimbles (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 9 November 2026£600k
What Met Office buys
By service, contracts awarded in the 24 months to 11 October 2026. BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
- 1Application development30 contracts£9.5m
- 2Servers and storage22 contracts£3.3m
- 3Research databases11 contracts£623k
- 4Version control software11 contracts£428k
- 5Engineering research10 contracts£872k
- 6Enterprise linux9 contracts£1.2m
- 7Network switches9 contracts£510k
- 8Software licensing9 contracts£1.0m
- 9Database software7 contracts£176k
- 10Laptops7 contracts£1.2m
Who wins Met Office’s contracts
By contracts won, the 24 months to 11 October 2026.
- 1Computacenter33 contracts£4.7m
- 2IBM16 contracts£2.1m
- 3Boxxe14 contracts£855k
- 4CAMPBELL SCIENTIFIC LIMITED8 contracts£791k
- 5UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)7 contracts£1.6m
- 6University of Exeter7 contracts£501k
- 7Raise Telecom Ltd7 contracts£161k
- 8Oracle6 contracts£1.1m
- 9University of Leeds6 contracts£358k
- 10UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology6 contracts£261k
Contracts awarded by quarter
Frameworks it buys through
135 of 550 contracts were call-offs from a framework or dynamic purchasing system.
- Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) Science Delivery Framework 2 · Met Office12 contracts
- Framework for Applied Science Technology Engineering Requirements (FASTER) · Met Office3 contracts
- Op Met Professional Learning and development2 contracts