Call for the development of a European flood geographic information system.
The European Commission's Research DG, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Environment and Sustainability has published a call for tenders relating to the development of a European flood geographic information system, 'EU-Flood-GIS'. The purpose of this invitation to tender is the development of a European flood geographic information system (EU-Flood-GIS) in support of the research activity on early flood alerts on European scale of the JRC. The EU-FLOOD-GIS will provide the European Flood Alert System (EFAS) with hydrological and meteorological data and corresponding metadata from all trans-national European river basins. The EU-FLOOD-GIS will follow as much as possible the principles that have been outlined in the Inspire proposal (COM(2004) 516 final). In particular, the service foresees: - the creation of catalogues with metadata about existing hydrological and meteorological data, including terms of acquisition and of data or data access licenses, from all trans-national river basins; - the design of the system architecture and its implementation, and; - collection of data and/or data access rights. The estimated value of the contract is 2 million euroFor further information, please contact: European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Environment and Sustainability Attn: Ms Patrizia Rivolta I-21020 Ispra Fax: +39 332 78 95 40. E-mail: JRC-IES-TENDER@ec.europa.eu To see the full details of the call, please consult the following web address: http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?REQUEST=Seek-Deliver&LANGUAGE=en&DOCID=173230-2005(opens in new window)