Bureau of Meteorology hunts for enterprise monitoring platform

The Bureau of Meteorology has tendered for an enterprise monitoring platform to keep watch over its technology estate, seeking a supplier to provide and install a system that monitors and alerts on thousands of endpoints across the agency.

The Bureau currently runs an enterprise monitoring platform responsible for the monitoring and alerting of nominated endpoints and application services.

That environment covers approximately 5,000 endpoints that are discoverable and monitorable - a mix of information technology assets, observing systems assets and application services - managed through a centralised capability that provides 'single pane of glass' dashboards for both business and technical users.

The Bureau said the monitored endpoints sit within distinct security zones and require access and credentials based on those zones, which may be located in data centres, sites or logical boundaries according to endpoint classification.

The platform is delivered as cloud-based software as a service and accessed through industry-standard web browsers, integrated into the Bureau's identity management system for single sign-on, and supports role-based access controls and internal auditing of adds, moves and changes. It complies with data sovereignty, cyber security and all relevant Australian Government policies and frameworks, according to the document.

The platform feeds critical alerts and events to the Bureau's IT Command Centre and its infrastructure and application support teams and application owners, the Bureau said.

It is integrated with the Bureau's IT service management system, automatically creating and routing incidents based on configured business rules, generating email notifications where required and performing event 'self-healing' through automated actions.

The events can be proactive or reactive, the Bureau said, and are critical to the ongoing support of its services and to visibility of the health of critical Bureau systems.

On objectives, the Bureau said it is seeking a suitable partner for the supply and provision of an enterprise monitoring platform for all monitored endpoints and associated components, engaging a supplier under a standard contract for the platform's supply and installation.

The contract term is an initial three years, with two extension options of one year each at the Bureau's discretion.

Tenders close at 5:00pm ACT local time on 20 November 2026.