Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-09-01
Buyer: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet — DTU
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Elixir Cloud is a unique cloud offering focusing on life sciences. Its aim is to provide users with on-demand complex HPC environments entailing computing power, secure storage, domain software and curated datasets tailored specifically to handle the most demanding bioinformatics workflows. Led by the DTU Informatics, one of the leading bioinformatics institutes in world, the initiative is to create a complete ecosystem connecting its members with means, expertise and network to innovate faster and provide production grade services to its customers.
The Elixir Cloud is a unique cloud offering focusing on life sciences. Its aim is to provide users with on-demand complex HPC environments entailing computing power, secure storage, domain software and curated datasets tailored specifically to handle the most demanding bioinformatics workflows. Led by the DTU Informatics, one of the leading bioinformatics institutes in world, the initiative is to create a complete ecosystem connecting its members with means, expertise and network to innovate faster and provide production grade services to its customers. Alternative 1: The Contract is not divided into lots. Using our existing supercomputing facility, expertise and established trust as a key differentiators we envision our users to be among some of the most prominent pharmaceutical companies, life sciences service providers as well as healthcare, startups and other academic institutions. Delivered as a web-application, our cloud offering enables its users to manage their own private cloud deployments. Within this capacity, clients will be able to deploy single instances or whole computing environments including their data, networking and software. Moreover, users will be able to extend their environments by selecting additional offerings from a catalogue of software provided as packages/images or datasets exposed as API endpoints or storage volume snapshots. Each one of our clients will be able to monitor key health and performance parameters of their instances and spending by a monitoring and billing interface integrated into the cloud application. Connectivity to existing IT infrastructure would be provided by exposing parts of private environments to external access through SSH or enterprise-grade VPN.
Complaint regarding a decision on shortlisting must be submitted no later than 20 calendar days from the date after notification to the concerned Candidates informing them of who has been selected has been sent and this notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud § 7, section 1.
Complaint regarding the award of contract must be submitted no later than 45 calendar days from the date after the Contracting Authority has published a contract award notice in the European Union Official Journal informing that the Contracting Authority has awarded the contract, cf. lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud § 7, section 2, no. 1.
Complaint regarding the award of a contract under a framework agreement with a reopening of the competition:
Complaint regarding the award of a contract under a framework agreement with a reopening of the competition must be submitted no later than 30 calendar days form the date after the Contracting Authority has notified the concerned Tenderers that a contract has been awarded, if the notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud § 7, section 2, no. 2.
Complaint regarding the award of a framework agreement must be submitted no later than 6 months from the date after the Contracting Authority have notified the concerned Candidates and Tenderers that award of contract has happened, cf. lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud § 7, section 2, no. 3.
Complaint regarding the Contracting Authority's award of contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the European Union Official Journal must be submitted no later than 30 calendar days from the date after a contract award notice has been published by the Contracting Authority in the European Union Official Journal and that contract award notice includes the grounds for the decision to award the contract directly, cf. lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud § 7, section 3.
Complaint regarding public procurements below the EU threshold must be submitted no later than 45 calendar days from the date after the Contracting Authority has notified the Tenderers about the award of contract if this notification includes the grounds for the decision; and no later than 6 months after the date where the Contracting Authority has notified the Candidates and Tenderers about that award of a framework agreement, if the notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud § 7, section 4, no. 1 and 2. Compliant regarding a decision on shortlisting on procurement below the EU threshold must be submitted no later than 20 calendar days from the date after the Contracting Authority has sent a notification to the concerned Candidates regarding who has been selected and this notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud § 7, section 5.