Published date: 15 June 2018

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


Closing: 6 December 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Computer servers - 48822000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£716,000 to £1,057,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS PR17148 CEPH Storage Servers for Physics Data Processing at the RAL Tier-1

Published date

15 June 2018

Closing date

6 December 2017

Contract start date

16 January 2018

Contract end date

15 January 2021

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

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 a large installation of PC Linux storage servers hosting approximately 15PB of physics data, using mainly SATA disks arrays.
STFC seeked an affordable commodity storage solution to augment the existing storage provision and meet the needs of the GridPP project. A detailed specification is provided below.

Award information

Awarded date

3 January 2018

Contract start date

16 January 2018

Contract end date

15 January 2021

Total value of contract

£776,338.71

This contract was awarded to 2 suppliers.

CLUSTERVISION LIMITED

Address

Suite 12, Westgate House,Westgate Retail Park
GLOUCESTER
Gloucestershire
GL1 2RU
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 05273359

Value of contract

£386,007.78

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

XMA LIMITED

Address

44 Nottingham South & Wilford Industrial Estate
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG11 7EP
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 02051703

Value of contract

£390,380.93

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Laura Lewis

Address

North Star House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793 867115

Email

laura.lewis@uksbs.co.uk