| Overview : BACKGROUND / RATIONALE The meteorological satellite system basically categorized as geostationary and polar orbiting. The later one has spatial resolution advantage while the former one has temporal resolution advantage. The first ground satellite receiving stations was installed at National Meteorological Agency (NMA) of Ethiopia back in 1975 to give services of receiving automatic picture transmission from NOAA polar orbiting satellite. Later in 1986, it was replaced by UKWtechnik equipment to receive meteorological data from geostationary and polar orbiting satellites. This system has primary data user station, secondary data user station, automatic picture transmission, maps of cloud top height and weather facsimile services. NMA of Ethiopia with the support of United Kingdom Oversea Development Administration and Reading University started operational satellite rainfall estimation and vegetation monitoring project in 1990. Since then, NMA has begun to receive and process real time data from METEOSAT and NOAA/AVHRR satellite. The team of satellite section was strong and able to produce Rainfall Estimation (RFE) using METEOSAT satellite and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) using NOAA polar orbiting satellite. The products were useful for rainfall and vegetation monitoring. Besides, the forecasting and early warning department was using the satellite imagery for now casting and short range weather forecast. Additional inputs from satellite improved the services of NMA. Late 1990s and early 2000s, the senior experts who were responsible for satellite meteorology left the section for various reasons. As a result the satellite section failed to render the service due to the failure of hardware and software as well as unable to catch up the advanced technology. However, the meteorological products disseminated through the EUMETCast were continuously used at the Agency for weather forecasting and early warning. Currently, NMA of Ethiopia has three ground satellite receiving stations. These are: - EUMETCast
- GEONETCast
- SADIS
The three ground stations at NMA receive raw and processed data from three different satellites. EUMETCast uses EUTELSAT 5 West communication satellite for dissemination of data whereas GEONETCast uses Atlantic Bird-3 communication satellite via the Fucino ground station in Italy for C-band reception for Africa users. SADIS system uses the INTELSAT communication satellite located over Indian Ocean. OBJECTIVES OF THE SUPPLY OF GOODS / EQUIPMENT / TECHNOLOGIES NDVI and fire monitoring products are mostly derived from the NOAA/AVHRR ground receiving system although fire monitoring products are available from geostationary satellites at coarse resolution. To compute high quality NDVI and fire monitoring products, the NOAA/AVHRR ground receiving system has to be either maintained or procured a new system. Procurement of the new system is inevitable due to the advancement of technology of ground satellite receiving systems. NDVI and forest fire products can be easily accessed from AMSED-PUMA EUMETCast receiving station. For example, NDVI product form the SPOT satellite is available through this station by VITO. MODIS fire products from NOAA/NESDIS are also available in the system. GEONETCast receiving station has also related NDVI and fire products from different centers. The supplier of the ground receiving station has to make available NDVI and fire products which are disseminating through EUMETCast stations. Therefore the objective of this procurement is enabling NMA to have NDVI producing system in place. It is, therefore, UNDP Ethiopia on behalf of government beneficiary hereby invites potentially qualified bidders to supply as per the detail technical specifications and/or “its equivalent” of: - Satellite Receiving System and put in place NDVI tools
BID SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION: - Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the ITB Proposal Submission Form uploaded hereto
- Both Technical and Financial Proposals shall be Physically or Courier delivered before application deadline October 12, 2016 on or before 10:30 AM Addis Ababa/Nairobi Time
- Physical Address of Delivery: Attn: UNDP Registry; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); ECA Compound, Congo Building.; Central Wing,; 6th floor; P.O. Box: 5580; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia:
EMAIL SUBJECT LINE WHILE REQUESTING FOR CLARIFICATION: - Bidders are strongly advised to send their request for clarification (if any) at info.procurementet@undp.org under email subject line ETH-ITB-2016-02
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