Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
The Science and Technology Facilities Council
Swindon
SN2 1SZ
UK
Contact person: Melanie Hollingsworth
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.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk
Additional information can be obtained from another address:
UK Shared Business Services Ltd
Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1ET
UK
Contact person: Melanie Hollingsworth
E-mail: melanie.hollingsworth@uksbs.co.uk
NUTS: UKK14
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/emptoris
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the following address:
Crown Commercial Services Ltd
St Martins House, 1 Lyric Square
London
UK
E-mail: ExpressionOfInterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk
NUTS: UKI
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at:
https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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
32321200
II.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
II.1.4) Short description
Procurement of new visualisation facilities at Science & Technology Facilities Council's new building, the Hartree Centre. Installation of new collaborative and development rooms and integration of existing equipment at the new premises on the Daresbury Laboratories site.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
458 334.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
32322000
32333000
50300000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD61
Main site or place of performance:
Delivery will be to the Hartree Centre STFC Laboratory Sci-Tech Daresbury Warrington, Warrington WA4 4AD.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Hartree Centre of the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is entering 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.
We are looking for a partner who can supply world-leading facilities, that have the expertise to enable us to make full use of the facilities, and that is prepared to enhance the development of Hartree activities.
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.
The plan is also to provide a more centralised infrastructure to enable more flexible utilisation of resources and the ability to adapt to evolving requirements and new use cases as they emerge.
Operational Principles
The key operational principles for this new facility will be to provide:
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Differentiated capability — to include state of the art computer systems and display systems.
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Support Workflow and Operations of the Hartree Centre — the facility is intended to work for users in Business Development, Public Outreach, Research Science and Development as well its partners.
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Flexibility — an ability to reconfigure display systems and sources to be connected between different rooms as needed.
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Collaboration — to support working in teams internally and with external partners and clients.
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Ideation — an ability to support idea creation, innovation, problem solving in teams.
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Communications — to enable users to communicate easily with remote partners and clients and to be able to easily share visual content over a range of diverse communication platforms.
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Demonstration — the facilities should also act as a showcase and promote the work of Hartree and STFC in general. This could be to clients, partners, sponsors, seminar attendees or the general public for outreach.
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Development — to provide an environment to track, evaluate and integrate and showcase emerging technologies.
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Scalability — provide the ability to scale visual computing problems at 3 levels:
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Ability to easily connect individual, portable personal computer visualisation systems into the visualisation infrastructure.
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Provision of powerful standalone visualisation systems to drive the display facilities.
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Access to extreme high performance problems running on the STFC HPC systems and provide advanced visual computing capabilities through remote visualisation.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
458 334.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 36
This contract is subject to renewal: No
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
No
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 III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
List and brief description of conditions:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: All submissions will
be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts
Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (Threshold amounts). This procurement will be managed electronically via the Crown Commercial Service's e-Sourcing Suite. To participate in this procurement, participants
shall first be registered on the e-Sourcing Suite.
If Bidders have not yet registered on the eSourcing
Suite, this can be done online at https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk by following
the link ‘Register for CCS eSourcing’.
Please note that, to register, Bidders must have a
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Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are
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Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will process the
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er.aspx
Responses must be received by the date in IV.2.7.
Responses received outside or concurrently using the
eSourcing process will not be accepted or considered
further for this opportunity.
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
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.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
04/01/2018
Local time: 11:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 3 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
04/01/2018
Local time: 11:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
VI.3) Additional information
The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right
(i) not to award any contract as a result of the
procurement process commenced by publication of
this notice; and
(ii) to make whatever changes it may
see fit to the content and structure of the procurement;
and in no circumstances will the Contracting Authority be liable for any costs incurred by the candidates.
If the Contracting Authority decides to enter into a
Contract with the successful supplier, this does not
mean that there is any guarantee of subsequent
contracts being awarded.
Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to
contract award is accordingly a matter solely for the
commercial judgement of Bidders.
UK Shared Business Services Ltd are able to accept
unstructured electronic invoicing.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
UKSBS
Polaris House
Swindon
SN2 1FF
UK
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
UK Shared Business Services Ltd
Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1ET
UK
E-mail: policy@uksbs.co.uk
Internet address(es)
URL: www.uksbs.co.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
21/11/2017