--- title: "RESuME high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution" ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375.json" source: "Public Contracts Scotland" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE" published: "2020-10-27" --- # RESuME high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution Buyer: UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375.json) ## Summary The University of Strathclyde is initiating a procurement process for the "RESuME high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution" under the education sector in Glasgow, UK. This contract is currently at the planning stage, with a known future notice date set for 1st December 2020. Interested parties should register their interest in this prior information notice by 6th November 2020. The procurement method will involve a tender process for the acquisition of goods that will support the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) in developing intelligent and connected systems. This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses in the technology and manufacturing sectors, particularly those specialising in high-performance computing and data storage solutions. Companies capable of providing advanced on-premise hardware, as well as software that supports container orchestration and data management, would be well-suited to compete for this contract. The successful supplier will play a key role in enhancing the capabilities of NMIS to integrate and manage manufacturing systems in Scotland. ## Notice At this time, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) is exploring the potential to create a suite of intelligent and connected systems in order to illustrate and test the possibilities from a streamlined supply chain network within Scotland. This testbed is called RESuME which will comprise of hardware and software solutions aimed at integrating manufacturing equipment and supporting systems across NMIS specialist facilities (AFRC, LMC and Digital Factory) under the ISA-95 model. ### Lot Information Lot 1 NMIS is currently looking to purchase on-premise high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution. The HPC solution will comprise of 2 elements: - On-premise hardware solution, consisting of multiple CPUs, GPUs, and with flash storage for the OS partition and disk storage for local data. The processing capability should be sufficient for an enterprise level HPC (approximate order of 10 petaFLOPS in AI applications), GPUs to be CUDA-enabled and multi-instance GPU capability is desirable. - Software solution installed on hardware solution, capable of operating a container-orchestration environment such as Kubernetes or similar, supporting initially 50 users (with expectation to grow to 250+ over 3 years), capable of hosting 3rd party software and API's. The storage solution will operate as a Data Lake and will comprise of: - One main storage node within the AFRC, consisting of hot and cold storage. - Two satellite storage nodes within 2 other NMIS facilities (locations TBC) - Software solution installed across all nodes to allow management and access, providing global name space, access to many different data/transfer protocols, tiering storage, lifecycle management, data recovery, encryption and meta data management. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland | | Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT398129 | | Notice type | OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Goods | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 27 Oct 2020 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 1 Dec 2020 | | Award date | Not specified | | 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 | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE | | Locality | GLASGOW | | Post town | Glasgow | | Postcode | G1 1QE | | Country | Scotland | | ITL 1 | TLM Scotland | | ITL 2 | TLM3 West Central Scotland | | ITL 3 | TLM32 Glasgow City | | Local authority | Glasgow City | | Electoral ward | Anderston/City/Yorkhill | | Westminster constituency | Glasgow North East | | Delivery location | TLM82 Glasgow City | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages - 48 - Software package and information systems ### Codes - 30211000 - Mainframe computer - 30211100 - Super computer - 30211500 - Central processing unit (CPU) or processors - 30233180 - Flash memory storage devices - 48000000 - Software package and information systems - 48100000 - Industry specific software package ## Release History - 27 Oct 2020 at 00:00 - Planning - OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT398129 ## Documents - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT398129 RESuME high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solution - At this time, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) is exploring the potential to create a suite of intelligent and connected systems in order to illustrate and test the possibilities from a streamlined supply chain network within Scotland. This testbed is called RESuME which will comprise of hardware and software solutions aimed at integrating manufacturing equipment and supporting systems across NMIS specialist facilities (AFRC, LMC and Digital Factory) under the ISA-95 model. ## Notice URLs - http:// - http://www.strath.ac.uk/ - https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375 - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=634375 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. The canonical page is https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375. The underlying structured data is available as OCDS JSON at https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000634375.json.