The met has bid for the contract, and lost the bid. The BBC and the met have both independantly confirmed tha. The met office isn't going to be providing weather data to the BBC.
Some of the staff (the presenters tended to be real meteorologists workig for the met office) might transfer over; severe weather stuff is still going to come from the met office; the Shipping Forecast is not a met office thing so should be unaffected.
The met office provide the data to the Maritime and Coastguard agency, who then provide that to the BBC. The presenters are BBC staff, not Met Office staff. So there's no change to the Shipping Forecast.
> The met has bid for the contract, and lost the bid. The BBC and the met have both independantly confirmed tha.
Where does it say this, please? All the articles I have found say that the contract will be put out to tender, but none actually say that the Met Office will be prevented from bidding.
That's fine, but where has anyone said that the Met Office can't bid in the upcoming tender? The Met Office blog post that you linked (thanks, I hadn't seen that) implies that they will no longer be providing services, but is this because they will decline to bid or because they are not permitted to bid?
Some of the staff (the presenters tended to be real meteorologists workig for the met office) might transfer over; severe weather stuff is still going to come from the met office; the Shipping Forecast is not a met office thing so should be unaffected.