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Newcastle University

(NU/1248) Deployment of a High Performance Computing (HPC) service

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000 48800000
Value£1.3m
Awarded2 Feb 2017
Published6 Feb 2018
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.3mtotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.4m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University wishes to deploy a High Performance Computing (HPC) service to support its research and teaching requirements.

The University will engage with a Seller to provide a solution to meet its HPC service requirements.

The University HPC service will be deployed at the University's off-site data centre; Sellers should carefully note the physical and environmental constraints of this hosting facility noted in MR41 in Section 3 of the Invitation to Tender document. .

The budget for this project, based on whole-life costs (as noted in the award criteria, but excluding energy) is £1.5M inclusive of VAT.

This opportunity is being advertised to Framework for Servers, Storage and Solutions National Agreement (SSSNA) Ref 2016/2, Lot 3(b) (OEM Solutions for HPC or DIC).

The terms and conditions of this framework shall apply to any contract resulting from this tender.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The University wishes to deploy a High

The University wishes to deploy a High Performance Computing (HPC) service to support its research and teaching requirements.

02

The University will engage with a Seller

The University will engage with a Seller to provide a solution to meet its HPC service requirements.

03

The terms and conditions of this framework

The terms and conditions of this framework shall apply to any contract resulting from this tender.

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Stage
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