Published date: 14 March 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 16 April 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

OX11 0DE

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

DLSITT0404

Published date

14 March 2019

Closing date

16 April 2019

Contract start date

6 May 2019

Contract end date

6 May 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

To facilitate the Diamond Science Programme, Diamond provides extensive control systems, data acquisition systems, data analysis and other data handling processes. These are realised through developments undertaken by an in-house team of ~120 software and computing engineers. They largely use open source software working, in collaboration with comparable projects world-wide, academic groups in universities and commercial organisations.
Scientific Computing systems support the in-house software team and the facility's users. They consist of high performance storage, provisioned as GPFS, commodity storage based on NetApp Appliances, a compute cluster with 7k x86 cores and 200 GPUs, a high performance network, Linux workstations and network services.

DLS wants to establish a Framework Agreement with multiple organisations for the supply of suitably qualified and experienced people to undertake and support the development of software and support of computer systems. This will be as part of the development of the distributed control systems or data acquisition systems or data handling systems or other computing projects. In general, this work will involve development of software within the established software frameworks or support of existing software or computer systems. Details of skillsets required for these development activities are outlined in Appendix B of our Technical Specification.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

Details of the tender evaluation criteria are included on the OJEU Notice which is attached.

If you are interested in this tender opportunity please create an account via the website link below:

http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Procurement/

You will then be issued with a password to download the tender documents. In order to be considered, your response should arrive no later than midnight on Tuesday 16.4.2019.

About the buyer

Contact name

Sue Blake

Address

Diamond House
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Didcot
OX11 0DE
England

Telephone

01235 778167 ext 8167

Email

procurement@diamond.ac.uk

Website

www.diamond.ac.uk