Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-09-06
Buyer: Technische Universiteit Delft
Country: NL
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
TU Delft aims to identify and contract a vendor, via a European tender procedure, that designs, supplies, implements, manages and maintains an HPC Cluster. TU Delft expects an expert vendor who is thinking in terms of win-win, has an eye for the interests of TU Delft, thinks along and cooperates using its own expertise, understands an environment like TU Delft and makes maximum effort to make the assignment a success.
The number of research groups at TU Delft that uses (or wants to make use of) High performance computing (HPC) is rapidly increasing. Also, for students who are educated at TU Delft in the field of computational science and engineering, following an HPC course is a must for getting a suitable job in this domain. This means that having your own compute cluster and infrastructure (hardware, software and peopleware) will have an attracting effect on talented researchers and students.
TU Delft therefore wants to establish a new high performance computing (center/institute) that provides HPC access to users of TU Delft and helps users (if needed) to gain access to the large scale national and/or international facilities. It is essential that the new center has its own computing hardware and its own technical staff for HPC maintenance.
TU Delft aims to identify and contract a vendor, via a European tender procedure, that designs, supplies, implements, manages and maintains an HPC Cluster. TU Delft expects an expert vendor who is thinking in terms of win-win, has an eye for the interests of TU Delft, thinks along and cooperates using its own expertise, understands an environment like TU Delft and makes maximum effort to make the assignment a success.
With this European tender procedure, TU Delft is applying the principles and selection process of best value, supplemented by a dialogue phase prior to the actual call for tender. By incorporating the dialogue phase, the contracting authority seeks to maximize the available expertise in the market and to optimally match and align the TU Delft’s High Performance Computing request to the market.
With the Best Value approach, the contracting authority seeks to appeal to the distinctive character of tenderers and to give a different than traditional interpretation to finding and retaining cooperation and partnership. The philosophy and methodology are aimed at identifying and contracting an expert vendor and service provider who has demonstrated with his tender to deliver high quality and minimizing risks at a realistic price.
On 23.9.2019 from 14.00 to 17.00 CET there will be a market information meeting in which the purpose and scope of this tender as well as the tender procedure (in particular the dialogue phase and the best value process) are explained.
Interested vendors who want to join can register themselves by sending a message via the Negometrix platform ultimately 20.9.2019 (maximum of 2 participants per organization).