Published date: 28 April 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 3 April 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Servers - 48820000

Location of contract

SO17 1BJ

Value of contract

£101,996

Procurement reference

2025UoS-1543

Published date

28 April 2025

Closing date

3 April 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

15 April 2025

Contract end date

29 May 2025

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University of Southampton requires 4 R760xa systems and as many Nvidia L4 GPUs as possible with servers meeting the following specification. There must be a maximum of 8 GPUs per server.
• CPU - Minimum of 12 threads per GPU, either Intel or AMD with minimum clock speeds of 2 Ghz normal, 3 Ghz boost
• RAM - 10GB per thread
• 800GB Minimum Solid State Fault Tolerant storage for OS, RAID 1.
• 7.68TB Minimum Read Intensive NVMe storage for local dataset storage
• Backplane - PCIe version 4 or above
• Redundant power supplies
• Remote server management that must include KVM over IP with console redirection and control.
• 1x Infiniband Mellanox ConnectX-6 Single Port HDR
• 1x 25GBase-T NIC for login traffic
• 1x 1Gbe NIC for management traffic
• Keep your own disk
• 5 Year next business day onsite warranty
• 1x 5m 25gbs Twinax cable for each server

The system must be compatible with the 3 existing R760xa systems the University already has.

A 5 year warranty period must be included.

Award information

Awarded date

15 April 2025

Contract start date

15 April 2025

Contract end date

29 May 2025

Total value of contract

£101,996

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Dell Corporation Limited

Address

1st & 2nd Floor,
One Creechurch Place,
London,
Ec3a 5af

Reference

Companies House number: 02081369

Value of contract

£101,996

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Hannah Nash

Address

BUILDING 37, HIGHFIELD CAMPUS,UNIVERSITY ROAD
Highfield
SOUTHAMPTON
SO171BJ
England

Telephone

02380595000

Email

procurement@soton.ac.uk

Website

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/