Tenders

List of calls

The challenges undertaken by Mercator Ocean for the development of operational oceanography in Europe always surpass the resources of the company itself and can only be achieved through partnerships.

The new missions assigned to it by the European Union will therefore be undertaken through comprehensive, open and transparent networking, by entrusting the development of services to expert partners from all backgrounds: the private sector, research institutions or public service operators.

The delegation agreement is between the European Union, represented by the European Commission, and Mercator Ocean for setting-up the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service, led Mercator Ocean to issue a range of calls for tender to create the necessary strong network of partners. Mercator Ocean is a France-based organization, therefore follows local regulations for contracts.

This web page will provide links to the Official Journal of the European Union where our current calls for tender are published, as well as our tenders tool MarchéOnline. You will find the links below.

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Current Calls for Tender

Reference	Description	Important dates
24254 COP GLORAN 4000	COPERNICUS MARINE – PROVISION, EVALUATION AND INTERCOPARISON OF GLOBAL MARINE ENVIRONMENT REANALYSES	Submission : 14th February 2025 at 12:00 noon (Paris time)
25365L00-COP-MIS OP-6200	COPERNICUS MARINE – DIGITAL – Operations of the Marine Information System	Submission : 17th February 2025 at 12:00 noon (Paris time)
25363L00-COP-PU SL WAVE L2 L3 RELAUNCH-2100	COPERNICUS MARINE – PRODUCTION - Relaunch of the unsuccessful lot no1 of the call no 24251-COP TAC (Provision of Ocean Observation Products "Thematic Assembly Centers" (TAC)	Submission : 24th February 2025 at 12:00 noon (Paris time)
25342L00-COP-MDS MGT SUPP-6000	COPERNICUS MARINE – DIGITAL- Marine Data store operations management support	Submission : 25th February 2025 at 12:00 noon (Paris time)
25339-COP-NCP USER DEMO- 8000	COPERNICUS MARINE NATIONAL COLLABORATION PROGRAMME – USER – Coastal Services Development and Capacity Building	Submission : 31st March 2025 at 12:00 noon (Paris time)

Intended  Calls for Tender

Information provided in the list below is indicative. It is based on MERCATOR OCEAN current estimates and may differ till the effective publication. The table is regularly updated to reflect any changes.

Reference	Name of the call	Description	Contract duration (months)	Amount(euros)	Date of publication
23127-COP-MDS-DEV-ADV-FEAT-6100	Copernicus Marine - Digital : Development of advanced functionalities for Marine Data Store	The purpose of this consultation is to provide advanced functionalities, covering centralized authentication scheme, MDS-based notebooks for accessing and transforming data, demonstration of web-portal integration on the MDS and metadata processing and enrichment.	18	1 000k €	2025Q1
23128-COP-MDS-DODASH-6100	Copernicus Marine - Digital - Data Observability and Dashboard	The purpose of this consultation is to develop a generic traceability and observability system allowing the monitoring and visualization of aggregated data flows from the different services of the production center. This system aims to provide information on the health, failures and performance degradation of these services.	24	500k €	2025Q1
23129-COP-MDS-3DVIEW-6100	Copernicus Marine - Digital - Interactive viewing and processing of Data in 3D rendering viewing	The purpose of this consultation is to develop a 3D Globe web map client application (aka MyOcean Viewer) for oceanographic data provided by the Copernicus Maritime Information Service and the EDITO platform, designed to revolutionize visualization and exploration of oceanographic data.By leveraging the power of 3D rendering and web technologies, this application will enable users to gain deeper insights into geospatial data, make informed decisions, and communicate complex information effectively.	24	800k €	2025Q1
25329-COP- PQ DOC VALID SUPP-1000	Copernicus Marine - Technical support for Product Quality documentation validation	The purpose of this consultation is to provide technical support for validation of Copernicus Marine product quality documentations (QUID and SQO) until June 2028.	39	800k €	2025Q1
25334-COP- COMM SM PRESS MEDIA-8000	Copernicus Marine - User - Communication, social media, press activities and media partnership	The purpose of this consultation concerns the 360 communication Services including articles, Social Media, SEO implementation following expert recommandations, visuals and web pages for SEA, videos, visual & graphical support, coordination of ocean outreach partnerships, implementation of the press relations activies with an agency, implementation of Media partnerships, creation of scientific ocean summaries & KPI reports, as well as providing media training services. (include Copernicus Marine Service, Copernicus WEkEO, Copernicus Arctic hub, Copernicus Coastal hub).	37	3 480k €	2025Q1
25336-COP-USER ENGAGE NCP-8000	Copernicus Marine - User - Technical support with the coordination of Copernicus Marine User Engagement activities	The purpose of this consultation is to provide technical support for the coordination of user engagement activities within the Copernicus Marine National Collaboration Program to ensure the effective coordination and delivery of the activities of this program and to improve the communication and impact of the Copernicus Marine service.	39	740k €	2025Q1
23123-COP-MIS-JIRA-6200	Copernicus Marine - Digital : Technical support for JIRA maintenance, administration and developments	The purpose of this consultation is to provide a technical support on JIRA for providing maintenance of current configuration, administration of the instances and additional developments for optimizing the cost and robustness of system configuration.	24	200k €	2025Q2
25330-COP- PC DELIVERIES SUPP-1000	Copernicus Marine - Support to Copernicus Marine Service overall technical coordination	The purpose of this consultation is to provide technical support to overall technical coordination of the Marine service, in particular the management of contributions of production centers in the releases.	36	360k €	2025Q2
25331-COP-PROD MGT SUPP-1000	Copernicus Marine - Support to Copernicus Marine product management	The purpose of this consultation is to provide technical support to product metadata and portfolio management (including Copernicus Marine Service, Copernicus WEkEO).	35	1 650k €	2025Q2
25332-COP-EDITORIAL WEB-7000	Copernicus Marine - User - Editorial web development	The purpose of this consultation is the development, design, implementation of pulications and changes, and maintenance in operational condition of editorial web sites (including Copernicus Marine Service, Copernicus WEkEO, Copernicus Arctic hub, Copernicus Coastal hub). It includes the implementation, maintainance and technical support for machine learning translations into the 23 official languages of the European Commission except Irish.	34	750k €	2025Q2
25335-COP-CAPACITY DEVPT-8000	Copernicus Marine - User - Organisation of capacity development workshops for Copernicus users, development of materials for practical sessions and the Jupyter Hub administration	Organisation of capacity development workshops for Copernicus users, development of materials for practical sessions (include Copernicus Marine Service, Copernicus WEkEO, Copernicus Arctic hub, Copernicus Coastal hub), and Jupyter Hub administration.	38	1 880k €	2025Q2
25337-COP-BLUE MARKET-8000	Copernicus Marine - User - Media partnership for promotion of various projects funded in the frame of the "National Collaboration Program"	The purpose of this consultation is to ensure promotion and visibility of the projects funded in the frame of the "National Collaboration Program" through a media partnership.	12	250k €	2025Q2
25338-COP-COMM SEA-8000	Copernicus Marine - User - Support for communication paid campaign	The purpose of this consultation is to ensure promotion and visibility of Copernicus through paid communication campaigns (SEA).	36	480k €	2025Q2
25341-COP-MDS OPER-6000	Operation of the Marine Data Store platform 2	The purpose of this consultation is to develop, maintain and operate the Marine Data Store activities until June 2028.	36	5 600k €	2025Q2
25343-COP-MIS EVOL SUPP -6000	Copernicus Marine - Digital - Support to Marine Information System	The purpose of this consultation is to provide technical support to management and development of the Marine Information System.	33	330k €	2025Q2
25344-COP-MIS OPER-6000	Copernicus Marine - Digital - Operation of the Marine Information System	The purpose of this consultation is to ensure the operation of the Maritime Information System: Keycloak (new authentication), LDAP, CMEMS APIs, Geonetwork and the new Catalogue Explorer, as well as the maintenance of the documentation.	39	390k €	2025Q2
24257-COP-PQCENTRALTOOLS-6000	Copernicus Marine - Digital - Development of centralised cloud-based solution for the validation of PCs output.	The purpose of this consultation is the definition of tools, metrics, KPIs, using advanced technologies, to perform unified quality control on production center outputs	24	400k €	2025Q2
24264-COP-INNO TECHNO-9000	Copernicus Marine - Cloud Optimised Regriding	The purpose of this consultation is the development of Cloud optimised regridding service able to, at least, regrid all the MFCs native products to CMEMS grid and on custom regular /irregular grid.	30	400k €	2025Q2
25333-COP- FRONT END WEB-7000	Copernicus Marine - User - Front-end tools web development	The purpose of this consultation is the development, design and maintenance in operational condition of front-end web tools, including the product catalogue interface, viewers (MyOcean Pro & Light & Learn & UNEP) , dashboards, the Marine toolbox, the Ocean climate portal, the Ocean Situation Room Tool, the Product Quality Monitoring dashboard. (for the Copernicus Marine Service, Copernicus WEkEO, Copernicus Arctic hub, Copernicus Coastal hub).	30	2 920k €	2025Q3
25340-COP-OSR SUPP-7000	Copernicus Marine - User - Ocean State Report coordination support	The purpose of this consultation is to provide scientific support to the preparation of the Copernicus Ocean State Report, from January 2026 to June 2028.	30	300k €	2025Q3
25345-COP-GLO FORCING-9000	Copernicus Marine - Innovation - Forcing of global reanalysis and forecast systems	The purpose of this consultation is the optimisation and bias correction of atmospheric forcing and fresh water fluxes for global ocean forecast and reanalysis. The objectives are as follows: - to develop and optimise production chain for the forcing of global systems providing capabilities to produce forcing on different platforms including the European DTO and large diversity of data sources. This include atmospheric forcing wind, stress heat and fresh water fluxes as well as river and glaciers inputs for fresh water and nutrients and global ocean surface carbon fluxes. - to develop bias correction methodology dedicated for the different forcing fields that could be applied to large scale and long term time series as for the reanalysis or the climate projection as well as for small scale features for near real time analysis or short term forecast. Methology based on AI and reference data set including ocean/atmosphere observations and simulations will be supported for an optimal compatibility with the European DTO.	30	600k €	2025Q3

Any questions?

Please send any questions to CMEMStenders@mercator-ocean.fr specifying the call number to which you wish to apply. Then you will receive a mail containing instructions to access all documents related to this call, at the latest on the next working day after reception of your request.

WARNING: if you send your request to any other email adress than CMEMStenders@mercator-ocean.fr, it might be addressed with some delay.

Closed Calls for Tender