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RBGKEW1460 Wakehurst Ecosystem Observatory Met Grade Weather Station

Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Buyer Address: THE HERBARIUM, KEW GREEN, UKI75, TW9 3AE, United Kingdom

Contact Email: procurement@kew.org

Status
complete
Procedure
direct
Value
21063.3 GBP
Published
05 Nov 2025, 12:45
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
30 Mar 2026, 23:00
Contract End
31 Mar 2027, 22:59
Category
n/a
CPV
71351600 - Weather-forecasting services
Region
n/a
Awarded To
Campbell Scientific Ltd
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

Wakehurst Ecosystem Observatory is Kew Wakehurst's Living Laboratory. Currently the facility consists of a network of 23 plots within the Wakehurst 210 ha site in West Sussex. An aim of WEO is to provide a baseline of long-term climate data collection to inform other landscape ecology science conducted across the site, from pollinator to carbon cycle research. to procure a research grade weather station that has a similar specification to other stations in the UKCEH Environmental Change Network. Doing so will allow Kew Wakehurst to integrate their data into a wider network of research sites as well as provide a rigorous baseline of change over periods of time relevant to climate science,

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Lots

Lot 1 Status: complete

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