ICHEC has operated the national HPC service for over 15 years alongside various distinct data management services. As part of its latest business plan covering 2021-2025, ICHEC proposes a more comprehensive, integrated and ambitious infrastructure roadmap to underpin the four key strategic objectives:
1. Enable Excellence in Science by delivering to the national service mandate
2. Advanced Digital Skills in developing a highly-skilled workforce
3. Accelerate Economic Development with a focus on the SME sector
4. Deliver HPC for Good through leveraging the output from previous priorities to tackle some of the key societal challenges for Ireland, such as healthcare, housing, and the environment.
The creation of this platform will require a number of infrastructure components:
Modular Datacentre;
Persistent Data-lake;
HPC Cluster;
Private Cloud Infrastructure;
AI Cluster;
Professional Services;
Development Partnership.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-09-30.
The procurement was published on 2021-08-24.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Provision of e-Infrastructure to Support the Creation and Operation of a National Compute and Data Research Platform and Related Services
CON1191”
Products/services: Super computer📦
Short description:
“ICHEC has operated the national HPC service for over 15 years alongside various distinct data management services. As part of its latest business plan...”
Short description
ICHEC has operated the national HPC service for over 15 years alongside various distinct data management services. As part of its latest business plan covering 2021-2025, ICHEC proposes a more comprehensive, integrated and ambitious infrastructure roadmap to underpin the four key strategic objectives:
1. Enable Excellence in Science by delivering to the national service mandate
2. Advanced Digital Skills in developing a highly-skilled workforce
3. Accelerate Economic Development with a focus on the SME sector
4. Deliver HPC for Good through leveraging the output from previous priorities to tackle some of the key societal challenges for Ireland, such as healthcare, housing, and the environment.
The creation of this platform will require a number of infrastructure components:
Modular Datacentre;
Persistent Data-lake;
HPC Cluster;
Private Cloud Infrastructure;
AI Cluster;
Professional Services;
Development Partnership.
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Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 70 000 000 💰
The creation of this e-Infrastructure Platform will require a number of components:
Modular Datacentre;
Persistent Data-lake;
HPC Cluster;
Private Cloud Infrastructure;
AI Cluster;
Professional Services;
Development Partnership.
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Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value excluding VAT: EUR 70 000 000 💰
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 84
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Information about variants
Variants will be accepted ✅ Scope of the procurement
Information about European Union funds: Potentially EuroHPC project
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Procedure Type of procedure
Competitive procedure with negotiation
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with a single operator
Description
In the case of framework agreements, provide justification for any duration exceeding 8 years:
“The maximum duration of the framework agreement will be seven (7) years in order to enable the progressive build-up of capacity and capability of the...”
In the case of framework agreements, provide justification for any duration exceeding 8 years
The maximum duration of the framework agreement will be seven (7) years in order to enable the progressive build-up of capacity and capability of the required platform together with providing a reasonable period of engagement with a partner to leverage the partnership arrangement to deliver in an innovative manner on ICHEC’s strategic objectives.
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Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated
Information about negotiation
The contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the initial tenders without conducting negotiations
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2021-09-30
12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 12
Complementary information Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie📧
URL: www.courts.ie🌏 Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
“The framework is covered by the application of the Remedies Directive and the relevant standstill period applied at time of notification of award decision.”
Source: OJS 2021/S 166-433330 (2021-08-24)