Mellanox Switches
Details
- Supplier(s)
- DELL CORPORATION LIMITED
- Value
- £462,118
- Topic
- Servers
- Published
- 1 March 2024
Tender description
Mellanox switches provide a high-performance networking solution for data centres, cloud computing, and artificial applications. Mellanox switches can operate at speeds up to 100Gbs per port and support various protocols such as Ethernet. Mellanox switches also reduce operation costs and infrastructure complexity. A direct award on lot 1 of SUPC Servers, Storage and Solutions National Agreement (SSSNA). This provides a quick, compliant and efficient route to market, enabling the University to purchase the Mellanox switches through an established reseller.
Timeline
- Completed: Award date27 October 2023
- Completed: Award published1 March 2024Current notice
About the buyer
University of Edinburgh buys as a higher education institution, through its own Procurement function. Larger tenders are advertised on Public Contract Scotland, via the PCS-T e-tendering platform. Suppliers must register separately on both systems before bidding. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements with APUC, Scotland Excel and the Crown Commercial Service. Prior information notices invite market engagement from suppliers ahead of larger tenders. The Strategic Procurement team leads regulated sourcing, while Operational Procurement manages day-to-day purchase orders. A Procurement Support team handles reporting, data analysis and training across the function.
Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.
Over the past 5 years, most of University of Edinburgh's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and software and information systems.
Relevant CPV codes
- 48820000 · Servers
- 48821000 · Network servers
- 72300000 · Data services
- 72315100 · Data network support services
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov |
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