# LU00513 - HPC Midlands Plus Tender 2016

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Loughborough University](/buyers/loughborough-university/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £3,200,000
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Planned start: 1 December 2016
- Planned end: 31 March 2021
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: bef8d23a-a105-4263-ac70-45c4a39aaa31-111703
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-487f6b00-adca-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

'HPC Midlands Plus' Tender 2016 A consortium of the Universities of Aston, Birmingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham, Queen Mary and Warwick intends to purchase a High Performance Computing facility to serve regional industrial and academic research requirements\. The facility will be used both for the running of locally developed codes and commercial packages\. This system is funded by the recent EPSRC call for Tier 2 centres and therefore any proposed solution must be delivered, installed and acceptance tested by the 31st March 2017\. In order to allow time for acceptance testing we expect the system to be installed by no later than the 24th February 2017\. The consortium intends to spend approximately £3,200,000 including VAT on purchasing the computer system\. As a guide we expect that £3m will be spent on the x86 and storage component with the remaining £200k on the OpenPOWER component\. OJEU notice 2016/S 195-351993 published 08 Oct 2016 refers\. Additional information: Suppliers interested in bidding for this project, please follow the link to Intend to register for our ITT document Please use the following link to register: https://in-tendhost\.co\.uk/loughborouni/ Once you have registered, you will then be able to log in, click on tenders, current then click ‘express interest’\. Shortly after this you will then be able to download documents relating to the tender you are interested in\. The OJEU reference is 2016/S 195-351993, published 08 Oct 2016\. Funding Description EPSRC Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost\.co\.uk/loughborouni/aspx/

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bef8d23a-a105-4263-ac70-45c4a39aaa31-111703)