Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-26
Buyer: Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30210000 | 30211100 | 30233000 | 30233100 | 30233140
Estimated value: 200000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-05-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: SUPC is acting as lead organisation on behalf of its members and also for members of the Higher Education Purchasing Consortium for Wales (HEPCW), the London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), the North-West Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC), the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) and APUC Limited (Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges). SUPC is not acting as an agent in the legal sense on behalf of participating organisations.
A full list of the participating Consortia members are available on the Consortia websites: www.supc.ac.uk ; www.lupc.ac.uk ; http://neupc.procureweb.ac.uk/ ; www.nwupc.ac.uk ; http://hepcw.procureweb.ac.uk/ ; http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk
This framework is for the provision of Servers, Storage and Solutions, including virtual appliances, support and maintenance and warranty extensions, software defined storage, backup solutions. It also includes compute and server related solutions, converged, hyper-converged, HPC and associated infrastructure.
Storage hardware and virtual appliances, software defined storage inclusive of object storage, backup solutions, software support and maintenance and warranty extensions.
Solutions in the compute, servers and storage arena including but not limited to converged, hyper-converged and HPC solutions.
Solutions in the compute, servers and storage arena including but not limited to converged, hyper-converged and HPC solutions
Lot 3a — Solutions including converged, hyper-converged, hybrid and other solutions excluding high performance computing and data intensive computing;
Compute and storage solutions covering HPC, DIC, converged, hyper-converged and other solutions including network interconnects, software, service and maintenance and warranty.
SUPC is seeking to award a Framework Agreement for the provision of Servers, Storage and Solutions including but not limited to hardware and associated software for servers and storage, High Performance Computing Solutions, Converged and Hyper Converged solutions, intrinsic networking interconnects, Virtual Appliances, Software defined storage, object storage backup solutions and intrinsic to solution software Support and Maintenance and warranty extensions.
Lot 1: Compute, servers including Virtual Appliances, software support and maintenance including warranty extensions. Agreements may be awarded to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) only, with the option to supply direct and/or nominate a specified number of approved channel partners;
Lot 2: Storage, hardware Including Virtual Appliances Software defined storage inclusive of object storage, backup solutions, software Support and Maintenance including warranty extensions. Agreements may be awarded to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) only with the option to supply direct and/or nominate a specified number of approved channel partners;
Lot 3: This lot is being sub-divided into 2 lots. Sub Lot 3a — Solutions — Compute and Storage Solutions, Converged, and Hyper Converged Solutions, intrinsic networking ‘ interconnects, virtual appliances, software defined storage, object storage, backup solutions and intrinsic to solution software Support and Maintenance and warranty extensions. Agreements may be awarded to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) only with the option to supply direct and/or nominate a specified number of approved channel partners;
Sub Lot 3b — High Performance Computing or Data Intensive Computing. Agreements may be awarded to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) only with the option to supply direct and/or nominate a specified number of approved channel partners;
Lot 4: Compute and Storage Solutions, covering: HPC associated infrastructure, e.g. object storage, Converged, and Hyper Converged Solutions, including servers, storage, intrinsic networking ’ interconnects, Virtual Appliances, Software defined storage, object storage backup solutions and intrinsic to solution software Support and Maintenance and warranty extensions. Agreements may be awarded to approved Resellers only. This lot will have a focus on the delivery of innovative Multi-vendor solutions.
The Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) awards and manages framework agreements for the education sector and is acting as lead organisation on behalf of its members and also for members of the other consortia (see Section II 1.5)). A full list of participating consortia is available on the consortia websites.

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