Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Durham University
- Supplier
- Vesper Technologies Ltd
- Value
- £249,991.14
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Sector
- Office & computing equipment · Mainframe computer (CPV 30211000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Feb 2025
- Published11 Feb 2025Published the same day
Description
The Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) at Durham University host part of the DiRAC national Tier-1 High Performance Computing (HPC) service. As part of this, a HPC Hardware Laboratory has been developed to investigate novel HPC technologies in all areas. We are currently funded to host a proof-of-concept liquid immersion cooled system, which will be made available to the UK research technical community to enable HPC systems administrators to grow in confidence with this technology, to visit the data centre, and learn how to manage immersion cooled servers. The total budget for this system is £250k including VAT (currently 20%) and must not be exceeded. The tender must be in UK pounds. It is a key requirement of this procurement project that the successful supplier will be prepared to build a strong and effective long-term collaborative partnership with the ICC. The University is keen to open opportunities to work closely with an industry partner to optimise this system and wo…
About the supplier
Vesper Technologies Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08962068).