Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2021-12-21
Buyer: Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI, lead procurer)
Country: FR
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 30200000 | 30211100 | 30211300
Estimated value: 7000000 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Joint procurement for the acquisition and the maintenance of two 100+ qubits Quantum Simulators for European supercomputing centers
This procurement takes place within the HPCQS project (https://www.hpcqs.eu), funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) and the participating member states in equal parts, under the call EuroHPC-2020-01-b. It involves two public procurers, GENCI and Forschnungszentrum Jûlich (FZJ), located in France and Germany, respectively, which work together in a joint procurement. The purpose of the procurement is, for each public procurer, to buy one 100+ qubits (quantum bits) quantum simulator that will be tightly integrated with its Tier-0 supercomputer. These systems are expected to be deployed at the end of 2022. In addition, these two hybrid (HPC+quantum) systems should allow prototyping scientific and industrial applications including but not limited to, machine learning and optimizations. These systems are furthermore supposed to address common topics of innovation.
Acquisition and maintenance of a 100+ qubits quantum simulator to integrate in the Tier-0 HPC supercomputer Joliot Curie of GENCI at TGCC/CEA
In the field of the HPCQS European project, the goal is to acquire a 100+ qubits quantum simulator to integrate in the Tier-0 HPC supercomputer Joliot Curie of GENCI at TGCC/CEA at the end of 2022. The seamless integration of the future quantum hardware with classical computing resources will allow creating a hybrid system, so it can efficiently complement the parallel architecture of current supercomputers and act as “accelerator” allowing users to benefit from the power of quantum computers for handling first practical applications. The anticipated quantum simulator will control at least 100 qubits (quantum bits) and will offer the capability to interconnect with the classical supercomputer and the suitable software environment to allow the programming and execution of applications on the quantum simulator.
Acquisition and maintenance of one 100+ qubits quantum simulator to integrate in the Tier-0 HPC modular supercomputer JUWELS at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) of FZJ
In the field of the HPCQS European project, the goal is to acquire a 100+ qubits quantum simulator to integrate in the Tier-0 HPC supercomputer JUWELS at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) of FZJ at the end of 2022. The seamless integration of the future quantum hardware with classical computing resources will allow creating a hybrid system, so it can efficiently complement the parallel architecture of current supercomputers and act as “accelerator” allowing users to benefit from the power of quantum computers for handling first practical applications. The anticipated quantum simulator will control at least 100 qubits (quantum bits) and will offer the capability to interconnect with the classical supercomputer and the suitable software environment to allow the programming and execution of applications on the quantum simulator.
The procedure expected to be used is a joint procurement, conducted by GENCI, acting as the lead procurer in the name and on behalf of the two contracting authorities. French law will govern the whole procurement procedure. The performance of each lot is subject to the national law of the respective public procurer.
The public procurers involved in the procurement are willing to inform the market in advance about their expectations and plans and to gather feedback from the market on them. Therefore, an Open Dialogue Event (ODE) will take place on January 13th 2022 from 2 to 5 pm via videoconference. All interested suppliers are invited to participate to this event and can register by sending an email to achat@genci.fr on January 10th 2022 at the latest. Specific details (contact point, agenda, registration information…) will be provided by January 11th, 2022 on the website of the project (https://www.hpcqs.eu).
This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No. 101018180. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Spain. The JU is however not participating as a contracting authority in this procurement.


Award value: 7000000