Published Date: 15 June 2018
Tender Status: complete
Tender Opening Date: n/a
Tender Closing Date: 11 January 2018
Award Date: 25 January 2018
Contract Start Date: 5 February 2018
Contract End Date: 4 February 2021
Contract is suitable for SMEs: Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs: No
Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) Contract Type: Products
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 approximately 800 dual-processor multi-core Linux servers providing High Throughput batch data processing services.
STFC seeked a commodity addition to the Tier-1 batch processing capacity to augment the existing processing capacity and meet the future needs of the GridPP project.
Contact name: Laura Lewis
Address: North Star House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England
Telephone: 01793 867115
Fax: n/a
Email: [email protected]
Price Range: £369,000 - £779,000
