The management of the UK element of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Data Distribution Centre (DDC) which provides access to modelling and scenario data used by the IPCC. Additionally it allows the Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) to deliver a dedicated data pipeline for pushing from its source (the Met Office) to the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) archive where it can be made available to climate/impacts users around the world.

1. The STA justification is that: PCR 2016 32 2.

(b) Where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:

(ii) Competition is absent for technical reasons, where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists.

The management of the UK element of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Data Distribution Centre (DDC) which provides access to modelling and scenario data used by the IPCC. Additionally it allows the Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) to deliver a dedicated data pipeline for pushing from its source (the Met Office) to the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) archive where it can be made available to climate/impacts users around the world.

1.The STA justification is that:

PCR 2016 32 2.

(b) Where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:

(ii) Competition is absent for technical reasons, where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists.