Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
The Science and Technology Facilities Council
Swindon
SN2 1SZ
UK
E-mail: melanie.hollingsworth@uksbs.co.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.stfc.ac.uk
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Other: Scientific research
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
UKSBS PR17135 Visualisation Suite
Reference number: UKSBS PR17135
II.1.2) Main CPV code
32322000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
II.1.4) Short description
The Hartree Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is entered into a tender process for the procurement of new visualisation facilities at its new building on the same campus, installation of new collaborative and development rooms and integration of existing equipment at its new premises on the Daresbury Laboratories site.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
449 993.83
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
32333000
50300000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
Main site or place of performance:
Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick Ln, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Hartree Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) entered into a tender process for the procurement of new visualisation facilities at its new building on the same campus, installation of new collaborative and development rooms and integration of existing equipment at its new premises on the Daresbury Laboratories site.
The newly relocated and updated visualisation facilities will complement a large investment in supercomputing capabilities at the Hartree Centre, Daresbury. In addition to large-scale visualisation, these procured facilities must be capable of supporting collaborative working with partners on site locally and offsite via collaborative communications technologies. Connectivity between visualisation and High Performance computing for scalability and computational steering will also be an important element. Interoperability and flexibility is also key, so as to be able to address future use cases.
The supplier will be expected to work collaboratively with Hartree (and its academic and commercial partners) to develop visualisation capabilities for future extreme high performance and data intensive computing systems and to enable the wider the use of high performance computing technology by UK industry to enhance the UK's international competitiveness.
The main purpose of this procurement is to fit out the newly built visualisation facility in the relocated Hartree Centre in Building 2, to establish a fully operational visual computing centre for demonstration, project delivery and on-going development.
This will include a new flat wall based visualisation room, 2 new Visual Collaboration Labs (VCLs), integration of the existing curved screen facility and an Emerging Technology Lab (ETL) which will be used for evaluation, showcasing and development of key new technologies.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 90
Price
/ Weighting:
10 %
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2017/S 224-465530
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: UKSBS PR17135
Title: Visualisation Suite
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
26/02/2018
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 2
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 3
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
The Saville Group
Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton
York
YO26 6PQ
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 449 993.83
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
UK Shared Business Services Ltd
Swindon
SN2 1FF
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
22/03/2018