Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-08-02
Buyer: VSB — Technical University Ostrava
Country: CZ
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72268000: Software supply services
Estimated value: 6000000 CZK
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The subject matter of the public contract is the supply of software for the IT4Innovations within the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center – path to exascale project.
The building of the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center located at the premises of the contracting authority′s headquarters in Ostrava — Poruba, Studentská 6231/1B.
The subject matter of the public contract is the supply of software for the IT4Innovations infrastructure, namely procurement of licences for the following software: 2 pcs ‘single seat’ academic license MedeA, which allows full parallel use to 10 users The MedeA software includes the following modules:
Part of the performance of the supply of the MedeA products is also provision of technical support for 2 years. Technical support (minimum technical requirements) includes the new and modified versions of the programme, patches, and information for users. Consultations are provided by telephone and e-mail.
“IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center – path to exascale”, reg. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001791
The negotiated procedure without prior publication was selected in compliance with Section 63 Article 3b of the Act No 134/2016 Coll., on public procurement, as amended, since for the technical reasons there is no competition, and therefore no other procedure could be selected. The contracting authority did not define the award criteria with the objective to exclude competition.
The MedeA is the crucial software tool to ensure direct impact on fulfilment of the objective of VP2 research programs of the Path to Exascale project, for example VC1-Magneto-optical properties of interfaces, overlayers and 2D structures and, VC2-Thermal expansivity, magnetostriction and magneto-elasticity of alloys, a VC3-Calculation of the characteristics of low-dimensional magnetic materials.
Because of technical reasons related to the subject of the procurement, the Materials Design S.A.R.L. is the certain economic operator, that is able to perform the public contract.
The detailed justification for the selection of the negotiated procedure without prior publication is included in Annex 1 of the written report.
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Winner: Materials Design S.A.R.L.
Award value: 6000000
Number of bids: 1