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title: "SU233(22) Provision of software solution for Supercomputing Wales (Swansea)"
ocid: "ocds-kuma6s-121713"
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source: "Sell2Wales"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "SWANSEA UNIVERSITY"
published: "2022-06-27"
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# SU233(22) Provision of software solution for Supercomputing Wales (Swansea)

Buyer: SWANSEA UNIVERSITY  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-kuma6s-121713

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## Summary

The procurement process involves Swansea University, which is seeking software development services under the title "SU233(22) Provision of software solution for Supercomputing Wales (Swansea)." This initiative is part of the Supercomputing Wales project that supports leading research institutions in Wales. The contract concerns software services for the Swansea component of the Bay Datacentre, with an open procurement method. The tender period concluded on 15 June 2022, and the award was made on 27 June 2022.

This tender presents an excellent opportunity for businesses specialising in software development, particularly those with expertise in high-performance computing and complex systems. Companies that can provide robust support for supercomputing infrastructures would be well-suited to compete in this arena. Given the contracts’ links to significant funding from European Structural funds, businesses engaged in similar research or technological solutions could leverage this opportunity for growth and collaboration within the academic sector.

## Notice

The Supercomputing Wales (SCW) consortium comprises the four leading research institutions in Wales - Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea Universities. Funded by European Structural funds and the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO), the present SCW contract ends in December 2022.The Swansea component of SCW is located at the Bay Datacentre on the Bay campus. It comprises of some 5,000 skylake cores along with a few nodes with Nvidia V100 and A100 GPUs. Bull Sequana hardware with AMD CPUs.These services were initially installed and commissioned during Q2/2018 by Atos. The solution is based on propriety SCS v5, SLURM job scheduler and connected through a Mellanox InfiniBand (EDR) connected Lustre parallel file system. These are complex systems and the original software support contract for them expired in March 2021 and as such the system has been running at risk since then.This Invitation to Tender relates to software services for the Swansea system only with software services for the Cardiff system to be purchased via a separate exercise, for operational reasons.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Sell2Wales |
| Latest notice | https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=121713 |
| Notice type | S2W Notice - Website Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 27 Jun 2022 |
| Submission deadline | 15 Jun 2022 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 27 Jun 2022 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Not specified |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | SWANSEA UNIVERSITY |
| Locality | SWANSEA |
| Post town | Swansea |
| Postcode | SA2 8PP |
| Country | Wales |
| ITL 1 | TLL Wales |
| ITL 2 | TLL4 Mid and South West Wales |
| ITL 3 | TLL43 Swansea |
| Local authority | Swansea |
| Electoral ward | Sketty |
| Westminster constituency | Swansea West |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | OCF |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72262000 - Software development services

## Release History

- 27 Jun 2022 at 12:42 - Award - S2W Notice - Website Contract Award Notice - https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=121713
- 27 May 2022 at 10:17 - Tender - S2W Notice - Website Invitation to Tender Notice - https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=121713

## Notice URLs

- http://www.ocf.co.uk
- https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk/home.html

## Provenance

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