ARCCA Supercomputer.
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External tender id 228001-2012 Tender type Contract Award Document type Contract award Procurement procedure Open procedure Contract type Supply contract Regulations
European Communities, with participation by GATT countries
Assignment criteria Not defined Version changes Contract award Buyer Company
Cardiff University Purchasing Section
Address
Purchasing Section, McKenzie House, 30-36 Newport Road
Zip/city CF240DE Cardiff UNITED KINGDOM Telephone +44 29 20 87 96 48 Fax +44 29 20 87 47 89
Description
Cardiff University is seeking to purchase a replacement/refresh for the current supercomputer and associated storage installed in 2008. The current solution is a central facility which supports the diverse computational research requirements across 19 of the departments/schools within the University – from traditional STEM through to medical and social science disciplines – with over 100 active projects and 350 registered users. Due to the range and variety of research, usage comprises serial batch jobs through to large tightly coupled calculations requiring 512+ cores. Usage reports are available on request. The current solution is a 2048 core Intel Harpertown Linux RHEL cluster, with ca. 70TB NFS /home partition, ca. 35TB usable /lustre parallel file system using PBS Pro job schedule. The procurement will seek to migrate the active user community and data onto the new system.
Note: due to datacentre design, the solution must be installed in APC Netshelter Hot Aisle Containment cubes (already installed in the datacentre) – a mix of 600 m and 750 mm racks – site visits will be facilitated on request. With an established user community, the remit for ARCCA (Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff) will be to engage with less traditional computational research groups to help assist with developing and delivering their research objectives. The solution proposed should highlight any opportunities where this objective will be supported.
3 years maintenance and Support must be included as part of the solution – with the pricing for extending this to a 4th year. In addition to the centralised supercomputer refresh, there is a second component which is subject to confirmation of funding from Wellcome Trust. This comprises an optional second component to the tender for Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre (Cubric) – Psychology Department – which is to replace their current imaging processing cluster. Full details are provided in the tender document, but providing competitive quotations for both systems is preferred.
Suppliers must register and express an interest in the project on the following web site:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cardiffuniversity/
Assignment
Cardiff University is seeking to purchase a replacement/refresh for the current supercomputer and associated storage installed in 2008. The current solution is a central facility which supports the diverse computational research requirements across 19 of the Departments/Schools within the University – from traditional STEM through to Medical and Social Science disciplines – with over 100 active projects and 350 registered users. Due to the range and variety of research, usage comprises serial batch jobs through to large tightly coupled calculations requiring 512+ cores. Usage reports are available on request. The current solution is a 2048 core Intel Harpertown Linux RHEL cluster, with ca. 70TB NFS /home partition, ca. 35TB usable /lustre parallel file system using PBS Pro job schedule. The procurement will seek to migrate the active user community and data onto the new system.
Note: Due to datacentre design, the solution must be installed in APC Netshelter Hot Aisle Containment cubes (already installed in the datacentre) – a mix of 600 m and 750 mm racks – site visits will be facilitated on request. With an established user community, the remit for ARCCA (Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff) will be to engage with less traditional computational research groups to help assist with developing and delivering their research objectives. The solution proposed should highlight any opportunities where this objective will be supported.
3 years maintenance and Support must be included as part of the solution – with the pricing for extending this to a 4th year. In addition to the centralised supercomputer refresh, there is a second component which is subject to confirmation of funding from Wellcome Trust. This comprises an optional second component to the tender for Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) – Psychology Department – which is to replace their current imaging processing cluster. Full details are provided in the tender document, but providing competitive quotations for both systems is preferred.
Suppliers must register and express an interest in the project on the following website:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cardiffuniversity/. Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: SPEC345/ARCCA/JP0112 Lot title: ARCCA Supercomputer. V.1) Date of contract award decision: 16.7.2012
V.2) Information about offers Number of offers received: 4
V.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken Bull Information Systems Ltd, Maxted Road, HP2 7DZ Hemel Hepstead, UNITED KINGDOM
Contract award notice Supplies
2012/S 137-228001 Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)
For the attention of: Telephone: E-mail: Fax: Cardiff University Purchasing Section, Purchasing Section, McKenzie House, 30-36 Newport Road, Julie Paynter, CF24 0DE Cardiff, UNITED KINGDOM +44 2920879648, [email protected] +44 2920874789
I.2) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.3) Main activity
Education
I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no
Section II: Object of the contract II.1) Description
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract
ARCCA Supercomputer.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Supplies Purchase NUTS code UKL22
II.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Cardiff University is seeking to purchase a replacement/refresh for the current supercomputer and associated storage installed in 2008. The current solution is a central facility which supports the diverse computational research requirements across 19 of the Departments/Schools within the University – from traditional STEM through to Medical and Social Science disciplines – with over 100 active projects and 350 registered users. Due to the range and variety of research, usage comprises serial batch jobs through to large tightly coupled calculations requiring 512+ cores. Usage reports are available on request. The current solution is a 2048 core Intel Harpertown Linux RHEL cluster, with ca. 70TB NFS /home partition, ca. 35TB usable /lustre parallel file system using PBS Pro job schedule. The procurement will seek to migrate the active user community and data onto the new system.
Note: Due to datacentre design, the solution must be installed in APC Netshelter Hot Aisle Containment cubes (already installed in the datacentre) – a mix of 600 m and 750 mm racks – site visits will be facilitated on request. With an established user community, the remit for ARCCA (Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff) will be to engage with less traditional computational research groups to help assist with developing and delivering their research objectives. The solution proposed should highlight any opportunities where this objective will be supported.
3 years maintenance and Support must be included as part of the solution – with the pricing for extending this to a 4th year. In addition to the centralised supercomputer refresh, there is a second component which is subject to confirmation of funding from Wellcome Trust. This comprises an optional second component to the tender for Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre
tender document, but providing competitive quotations for both systems is preferred. Suppliers must register and express an interest in the project on the following website:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cardiffuniversity/.
II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
30200000, 30211100
II.1.6) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes
II.2) Total final value of contract(s) II.2.1) Total final value of contract(s) Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open
IV.2) Award criteria IV.2.1) Award criteria
IV.2.2) Information about electronic auction IV.3) Administrative information
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
SPEC345/ARCCA/JP0112
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
Contract notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2012/S 19-030836 of 28.1.2012
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: SPEC345/ARCCA/JP0112 Lot title: ARCCA Supercomputer.
V.1) Date of contract award decision:
16.7.2012
V.2) Information about offers
Number of offers received: 4
V.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken
Bull Information Systems Ltd, Maxted Road, HP2 7DZ Hemel Hepstead, UNITED KINGDOM
V.4) Information on value of contract V.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: no
Section VI: Complementary information VI.1) Information about European Union funds VI.2) Additional information:
Buy4Wales Reference Number: 31063.
VI.3) Procedures for appeal
VI.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures VI.3.2) Lodging of appeals
VI.3.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained VI.4) Date of dispatch of this notice:
16.7.2012
CPV codes
Code Description
30200000 Computer equipment and supplies. 30211100 Super computer.
