Tender reference number EASME/EMFF/2016/006.
Title Operation, development and maintenance of a European marine observation and data network.

The European Commission represented for the purposes of this call for tenders by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) wishes to conclude 6 service contracts.
There are 6 lots: lot 1: geology, lot 2: seabed habitats, lot 3: physics, lot 4: chemistry, lot 5: biology, lot 6: human activities.
The objective is to further develop an operational service where marine data is made interoperable and freely available and to further develop data products based on observations of the sea, providing free and open access to these data products and to the observations on which these data products were built.

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