Published date: 31 January 2018

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Awarded contract (published 24 October 2018)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Computer equipment and supplies - 30200000

Location of contract

OX11 0DE

Value of contract

£2,000,000

Procurement reference

DLSITT0400

Published date

31 January 2018

Closing date

1 March 2018

Contract start date

25 June 2018

Contract end date

1 October 2018

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Competitive dialogue (above threshold)

Tenders are invited from pre-qualified suppliers after discussion of requirements and potential solutions.

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

Diamond Light Source (DLS) wishes to deploy a new platform for the collection and analysis of experimental data from beamlines and electron microscopes. The installation will be in our new data centre and will provide an integrated set of high performance compute nodes and a highly resilient, high performance file system. Diamond already operates a suite of high performance file systems and a HPC cluster in an existing data centre. However, this new system will not be 'tightly coupled' with existing HPC and storage platforms. i.e. it is not planned to extend the low latency, high bandwidth current Infiniband fabric across to the new data centre. This procurement is for the foundations of a new platform in a new datacentre, and it is required that this new system will be able to grow over time in both capacity and capability within the new data centre. The budget for the new system is £2M ex VAT.

More information

Attachments

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To obtain the PQQ documents 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 enable you to download the documents. In order to be considered, your response should arrive no later than midnight on Thursday 1st March 2018.

About the buyer

Contact name

Sue Blake

Address

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

Telephone

01235 778167

Email

procurement@diamond.ac.uk

Website

www.diamond.ac.uk