MERCATOR OCEAN JOURNA: 
SEPTEMBER 2021 
1. 2015-2021 PROGRAMME 
IMPLEMENTATION 
The User Uptake programme has taken the shape of 
several successive calls for tender to involve many private 
and public companies in the uptake of the marine products. 
Six calls for tender were issued and focused mainly on 
marine coastal or offshore services while one was 
dedicated to an inventory of existing mobile apps. 
A first batch of 18 contracts were selected (DEM1, DEM2, 
DEM3 and INV1) and started on March 2017; they focused 
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on demonstrations of operational and coastal downstream 
services including those linked to EU Marine Strategy 
Framework Directive (MSFD) and on an inventory of mobile 
applications that use Copernicus Marine products. 
A second batch of 10 User Uptake contracts (DEM4) startec 
on May 2018 and focused on new demonstrations of coastaı 
and operational downstream services to complete 
geographical regions not covered by previous calls for tender. 
In 2019, a third batch of 12 contracts (DEM5) started on 
May 2019 and focused on new demonstrations of CMEMS 
downstream services to complete geographical regions 
not sufficiently covered by previous calls for tender, the 
Arctic Ocean and the Global Ocean in particular. 
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Launch of calls for tender 
Demonstrations of operational CMEMS services (coastal and offshore) 
on regional European Seas and Global Ocean 
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Schedule of the 6 calls for tender launched in the framework of CMEMS User Uptake programme 
For each call for tender and after receipt of offers, Mercator 
Ocean analysed all proposals with respect to the criteria 
listed in the tender. Then a Tender Evaluation Board took 
place to evaluate collectively the received proposals. 
This Tender Evaluation Board was composed of external 
independent experts, European Commission members and 
the Mercator Ocean evaluation team. 
Over the period 2015-2021, Mercator Ocean has received 
and analysed 122 different proposals from 111 different 
organisations (64 private / 47 public - 21 EU countries / 3 
non-EU). After selection phases, a total of 40 projects were 
selected from 46 different organisations (28 private / 18 
public - 16 EU countries / 2 non-EU). The ratio of private 
to public companies remained almost the same after the 
selection (about 1/3 public and 2/3 private). Some entities 
applied as individuals and others as the leader or partner 
ın a consortium. The number of consortia was increasing 
year after year with innovative mixing between public and 
private entities and different countries.