Award

Award of Support for High Performance Computing Cluster (MS-P-0391)

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

  • Contract Timeline

    Publication Date

    11th March 2025 18:45:23 PM

  • Contract Summary

    The Scottish Ministers acting through Marine Directorate invites tenders for a two year support contract on our existing Marine Scotland High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster made up of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, supplied in 2020.Marine Directorate mainly use the HPC cluster for hydrodynamic model and particle tracking simulations, as well as model pre- and post-processing and visualisation, and other marine science applications. The wider Scottish Government also use the HPC cluster for modelling the spread of diseases. Marine Directorate has developed cutting edge machine learning (ML) methods for the automatic extraction of detailed growth information from salmon scale images. Machine learning is also being used, or investigated, in a number of other areas in Marine Directorate.

  • Contract Details

    Open Contracting ID

    ocds-r6ebe6-0000790135

    Publication Source

    Public Contracts Scotland

    Procurement Stage

    Award

    Procurement Method

    N/A

    Procurement Method Details

    N/A

    Procurement Category

    Services

    Tender Suitability

    Framework / DPS

  • Contract Classification

    CPV Code(s)

    50312600
    50312610

    CPV Division(s)

    50 - Repair and maintenance services

  • Awarding Authority

    SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

    Buyer Name

    Marine Directorate

    Buyer Email

    bob.mcleod@gov.scot

    Buyer Phone

    +44 1312442500

    Buyer Address

    Marine Laboratory

    Aberdeen

    AB11 9DB

  • Awarded Supplier(s)

    Supplier Name(s)

    OCF LIMITED

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