Award of Support for High Performance Computing Cluster (MS-P-0391)
Details
- Buyer
- Scottish Government
- Supplier(s)
- OCF LIMITED
- Value
- £18,536.22
- Topic
- Maintenance and repair of information technology equipment
- Published
- 11 March 2025
Tender description
The Scottish Ministers acting through Marine Directorate invites tenders for a two year support contract on our existing Marine Scotland High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster made up of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, supplied in 2020.Marine Directorate mainly use the HPC cluster for hydrodynamic model and particle tracking simulations, as well as model pre- and post-processing and visualisation, and other marine science applications. The wider Scottish Government also use the HPC cluster for modelling the spread of diseases. Marine Directorate has developed cutting edge machine learning (ML) methods for the automatic extraction of detailed growth information from salmon scale images. Machine learning is also being used, or investigated, in a number of other areas in Marine Directorate.
Timeline
- Completed: Award published11 March 2025Current notice
- Completed: Award date3 October 2025
About the buyer
The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.
Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.
Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.
Relevant CPV codes
- 50312600 · Maintenance and repair of information technology equipment
- 50312610 · Maintenance of information technology equipment
Decision makers
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| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov |
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