# UK SBS PR17149 CPU Servers for Physics Data Processing at the RAL Tier-1

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED](/buyers/uk-shared-business-services-limited/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [DELL CORPORATION LIMITED](/contract-winners/dell/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £323,213
- Tender value: £779,000
- Award date: 25 January 2018
- Published: 15 June 2018
- Contract start: 5 February 2018
- Contract end: 4 February 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 1659369c-ecb1-4abc-9007-b5ea2c0f1c93-222631
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-fd750774-b08f-4a20-b64d-ba2da4759e49

## Description

AWARDED FOLLOWING A CALL OFF COMPETITION UNDER THE SERVERS, STORAGE & SOLUTIONS NATIONAL AGREEMENT \(SSSNA\) Lot 3B \(2016/S 061-103632\) The STFC Scientific Computing Department provides a national computing facility \(The Tier-1 Service\) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory \(RAL\) for the UK particle physics GRID computing project GridPP \(http://www\.gridpp\.ac\.uk\)\. The Tier-1 has approximately 800 dual-processor multi-core Linux servers providing High Throughput batch data processing services\. STFC seeked a commodity addition to the Tier-1 batch processing capacity to augment the existing processing capacity and meet the future needs of the GridPP project\.

## Related contract awards

- [DDaT25234 - Cloud Support](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fc7fc38c-af16-4858-ae07-8a4f81832054): UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
- [Review of Market-Equivalent Discount Rate methodology for Innovate UK Loans Ltd](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0fb790b1-d42a-47bd-b0a0-adfd6faf2e8b): UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
- [DDaT26332 - Case Management Software](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-06277499-aef4-4090-8596-9c2ef7d95b7d): UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
- [End User Devices](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c8299cdb-6400-4a5e-9355-478cab47b867): United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- [IT Data Centre maintenance & support](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-578d6b95-bf90-4900-a5a3-9febbb7825fe): Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust \(KGH\)
- [WDC Replacement Monitors](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-62aa09d1-f83e-4b6d-b6cb-d10d1ed5863d): Wealden District Council

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1659369c-ecb1-4abc-9007-b5ea2c0f1c93-222631)