Expired contract

2947/MH HPC Upgrades to provide interactive GPU compute capability

Details

Value
£561,000
Duration
4 years
Topic
Central processing units for microcomputers
Published
14 June 2021

Tender description

The University has an existing HPC compute facility to which it wishes to upgrade as and when funding is made available, often at short notice, over the next 4 years and 2 months by which time it is expected to have become end of life and replaced. A further competition was run amongst all resellers who have a place in the SUPC SSSNA Framework Agreement. The initial spend is £581K, after this no spend is guaranteed but could be worth upto an estimated £1.5M based on previous research requirements.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date31 May 2021
  2. Completed: Award published14 June 2021
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date31 July 2025

About the buyer

University of Sheffield is a higher education institution whose Procurement Office lets and manages contracts for its schools and departments. The university also buys through regional and national frameworks as a member of the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium, part of UKUPC. They cover catering, furniture, computing, laboratory supplies, postal services, domestic services, professional services and stationery. Once a contract is let, each school and department must buy from the contracted supplier.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Sheffield's contract awards have been in construction work, industrial machinery and laboratory and precision equipment.

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