Published date: 24 October 2023

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: 23 November 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Super computer - 30211100

  • Information technology services - 72222300

Location of contract

B15 2TT

Value of contract

£25,000,000

Procurement reference

FRAM577/23

Published date

24 October 2023

Closing date

23 November 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2028

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure (above threshold)

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

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

The University of Birmingham has established an integrated Research Computing environment known as BEAR (Birmingham Environment for Academic Research) with a set of interrelated services to support many aspects of the research process. The University also operates Baskerville, the UKRI funded Tier2 Accelerated Compute Service, and is one of the partners, hosting and operating the MRC funded CLIMB-BIG-DATA (Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics). In addition, research groups and schools may run services locally.

All main correspondence should go via the University's In-Tend website. Your tender documents and information must be submitted via In-Tend by the date and time specified;
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham/aspx/Home

About the buyer

Contact name

Sarah Randle

Address

Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM
B152TT
England

Email

s.l.randle@bham.ac.uk