UK SBS PR17149 CPU Servers for Physics Data Processing at the RAL Tier-1

Contract summary

Industry

• Servers - 48820000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£369,000 to £779,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS PR17149 CPU Servers for Physics Data Processing at the RAL Tier-1

Published date

15 June 2018

Closing date

11 January 2018

Contract start date

5 February 2018

Contract end date

4 February 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

AWARDED FOLLOWING A CALL OFF COMPETITION UNDER THE SERVERS, STORAGE & SOLUTIONS NATIONAL AGREEMENT (SSSNA) Lot 3B (2016/S 061-103632)
The STFC Scientific Computing Department provides a national computing facility (The Tier-1 Service) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) for the UK particle physics GRID computing project GridPP (http://www.gridpp.ac.uk).
The Tier-1 has approximately 800 dual-processor multi-core Linux servers providing High Throughput batch data processing services.
STFC seeked a commodity addition to the Tier-1 batch processing capacity to augment the existing processing capacity and meet the future needs of the GridPP project.

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Award information

Awarded date

25 January 2018

Contract start date

5 February 2018

Contract end date

4 February 2021

Total value of contract

£632,276.62

This contract was awarded to 2 suppliers.

DELL CORPORATION LIMITED

XMA LIMITED

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About the buyer

Contact name

Laura Lewis

Address

North Star House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793 867115

Email

laura.lewis@uksbs.co.uk