Public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI) to buy innovative high-performance IT equipment for European supercomputing centres

Grand équipement national de calcul intensif (GENCI)

This Contract Notice invites interested economic operators to submit tenders to a PPI procurement that addresses the following challenge: providing high-performance IT equipment for European supercomputing centres.
The procurement involves 4 public procurers (BSC, JUELICH, CINECA and GENCI) located in 4 different countries (Spain, Germany, Italy and France) working together in a joint procurement. The purpose of the procurement is for each public procurer to purchase an innovative high-performance supercomputer and/or an innovative high-performance storage system that will be integrated in their computing centre. These systems are expected to be deployed in the time frame 2019-2021.
Additional information under this section and the Contract Notice in its entirety are available on the PPI4HPC website at the following address: https://ppi4hpc.eu

Date limite

Le délai de réception des offres était de 2018-07-09. L'appel d'offres a été publié le 2018-05-09.

Fournisseurs

Les fournisseurs suivants sont mentionnés dans les décisions d'attribution ou dans d'autres documents relatifs aux marchés publics :

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Historique des marchés publics
Date Document
2018-05-09 Avis de marché
2019-09-30 Informations complémentaires
2020-05-07 Avis d'attribution de marché
Avis de marché (2018-05-09)
Objet
Champ d'application du marché
Titre: Superordinateur
Numéro de référence: PPI4HPC
Brève description:
This Contract Notice invites interested economic operators to submit tenders to a PPI procurement that addresses the following challenge: providing high-performance IT equipment for European supercomputing centres. The procurement involves 4 public procurers (BSC, JUELICH, CINECA and GENCI) located in 4 different countries (Spain, Germany, Italy and France) working together in a joint procurement. The purpose of the procurement is for each public procurer to purchase an innovative high-performance supercomputer and/or an innovative high-performance storage system that will be integrated in their computing centre. These systems are expected to be deployed in the time frame 2019-2021. Additional information under this section and the Contract Notice in its entirety are available on the PPI4HPC website at the following address: https://ppi4hpc.eu
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Métadonnées de l'avis
Langue originale: anglais 🗣️
Type de document: Avis de marché
Nature du marché: Fournitures
Réglementation: Union européenne, avec participation des pays de l'AMP
Vocabulaire commun pour les marchés publics (CPV)
Code: Superordinateur 📦
Code CPV supplémentaire: Plates-formes informatiques 📦
Matériel et fournitures informatiques 📦
Superordinateur 📦
Lieu d'exécution
Région NUTS: España 🏙️
Deutschland 🏙️
Italia 🏙️
Essonne 🏙️

Procédure
Type de procédure: Dialogue compétitif
Type de soumission: Soumission pour tous les lots
Critères d'attribution
Offre la plus économique

Pouvoir adjudicateur
Identité
Pays: France 🇫🇷
Type de pouvoir adjudicateur: Organisme de droit public
Nom du pouvoir adjudicateur: Grand équipement national de calcul intensif (GENCI)
Adresse postale: 6bis rue Auguste Vitu
Code postal: 75015
Commune postale: Paris
Contact
Adresse Internet: http://www.genci.fr 🌏
Courrier électronique: achat@genci.fr 📧
Téléphone: +33 612780719 📞
URL des documents: https://ppi4hpc.eu 🌏

Référence
Dates
Date d'envoi: 2018-05-09 📅
Date limite de soumission: 2018-07-09 📅
Date de publication: 2018-05-12 📅
Identifiants
Numéro d'avis: 2018/S 090-202138
Se réfère à l'avis: 2017/S 126-256030
Numéro JO-S: 90
Informations complémentaires
Additional information under this section and the Contract Notice in its entirety are available on the PPI4HPC website at the following address: https://ppi4hpc.eu

Objet
Champ d'application du marché
Brève description:
This Contract Notice invites interested economic operators to submit tenders to a PPI procurement that addresses the following challenge: providing high-performance IT equipment for European supercomputing centres.
The procurement involves 4 public procurers (BSC, JUELICH, CINECA and GENCI) located in 4 different countries (Spain, Germany, Italy and France) working together in a joint procurement. The purpose of the procurement is for each public procurer to purchase an innovative high-performance supercomputer and/or an innovative high-performance storage system that will be integrated in their computing centre. These systems are expected to be deployed in the time frame 2019-2021.
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Additional information under this section and the Contract Notice in its entirety are available on the PPI4HPC website at the following address: https://ppi4hpc.eu
Valeur totale estimée: 73 000 000 EUR 💰
Intitulé du lot: Storage and computing infrastructure for high-performance data analytics
Numéro du lot: 1
Brève description:
In this lot, BSC will acquire storage and computing infrastructure for high-performance data analytics to be installed during the second half of 2019. The BSC HPDA infrastructure will combine compute nodes with innovative storage technologies like NVRAM in conjunction with storage technologies already in place at BSC, such as normal hard drives and tape infrastructure, configured in a tiered storage solution to store hundreds of petabytes of scientific data.
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For the storage part, an innovative tiered storage solution scalable to hundreds of petabytes is expected. It will feed and provide data to the different BSC HPC and HPDA resources now and in the years to come during the pre-exascale period.
For the compute part, a high-performance data analytics infrastructure will be acquired to complement installed BSC HPC production clusters. They will pre- or post-process simulation data with new big data or analytics paradigms and algorithms.
Innovative solutions for massive data storage and tiering are expected for this lot.
Valeur estimée hors TVA: 1 350 000 EUR 💰
Durée de l'accord: 36 mois
Nom du projet ou programme financé par l’UE: Grant agreement No 754271 – PPI4HPC
Informations complémentaires:
Additional information under this section and the Contract Notice in its entirety are available on the PPI4HPC website at the following address: https://ppi4hpc.eu
Intitulé du lot: Acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of a supercomputer with innovative support for data-intensive applications
Numéro du lot: 2
Brève description:
The goal of the lot is to procure a high-performance computing resource that is planned to be installed at Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s (JSC) supercomputing facility by the end of 2020. The system will replace the currently operated JURECA cluster and must be able to execute the diverse workloads of this system with significantly higher performance and energy efficiency. In addition, the system shall have architectural features specifically targeted at data-intensive science. In particular, JSC expects the system to integrate dense memory technologies into its memory hierarchy and to expose this memory to applications through novel APIs. The system is expected to be connected to the central storage subsystem in the JSC facility with high bandwidth. In addition to the dense memory integration, JSC expects innovative hardware and software solutions offering high energy efficiency as well as improved facility integration (e.g. improved power monitoring and control) and application performance monitoring capabilities.
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Valeur estimée hors TVA: 24 200 000 EUR 💰
Durée de l'accord: 72 mois
Description des options:
The contract will enter into force from its notification to the awarded economic operator and will last five (5) years, with the option to extend the duration by another year. The option to extend the five (5) year contract by another year needs to be taken into account in the financial offer (Proposal Statement). No changes to the original contract will be made for the optional year. JUELICH will inform the contractor at least one (1) month before the termination of the five (5) year contract whether the option will be chosen.
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Intitulé du lot: Evolution of the Tier-0 system towards exascale architectures
Numéro du lot: 3
Brève description:
The goal of the lot is to procure a new supercomputing system that will replace the throughput partition of MARCONI installed in CINECA’s data centre. With the deployment of the new system, scheduled for the second half of 2019, CINECA aims to achieve a computing power of the order of tens of PFlops featuring a node architecture that maximizes the performance throughput per energy unit. The new system will support CINECA’s commitment to providing leading-edge innovative computing resources to European research as a PRACE Tier-0 hosting member. The procured resource integrated in the MARCONI infrastructure will represent a new step towards the architectural convergence of high-performance computing and high-performance data analytics (data-centric architecture) and will be able to run computing and data intensive workloads, which is particularly relevant for solutions with a high energy efficiency. In this regard, the system will benefit from innovative hardware and software solutions that aim to reduce power consumption, improve power management and enhance I/O performance, helping to make supercomputing sustainable towards exascale for a broad range of scientific applications.
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Valeur estimée hors TVA: 25 000 000 EUR 💰
Durée de l'accord: 48 mois
Intitulé du lot: Framework Agreement for the acquisition, delivery, installation, maintenance and decommissioning of a high-performance and energy-efficient computing system towards the convergence of HPC, HPDA and AI
Numéro du lot: 4
Brève description:
The goal of the lot is to increase, during the second half of 2019, the computing power installed in the TGCC (Très grand centre de calcul du CEA, located near Paris) and make it available to French and European researchers. Targeting several tens of Petaflops, the new HPC resource will be seamlessly integrated into the system installed in early 2018 in the same location. The new system will provide a balanced architecture for scientific applications, including very high IO bandwidth connection to the storage system of the TGCC. In order to fulfil such requirements and to achieve a high-energy efficiency together with an excellent performance / TCO ratio towards exascale systems, GENCI expects innovative solutions both in terms of hardware (processors, interconnection network…) and in terms of software (novel programming models…) as well as strong support from the provider, particularly during early operation of the new system including a contribution to application porting and optimization.
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Valeur estimée hors TVA: 32 000 000 EUR 💰
Durée de l'accord: 108 mois
Lieu d'exécution
Site principal ou lieu d'exécution:
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Carrer de Jordi Girona, 29-31, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, 52428 Jülich, Germany.
CINECA, Via Magnanelli, 6/3, 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BO, Italia.
CEA DAM Île-de-France, TGCC (Très grand centre de calcul du CEA), chemin Grand Rué, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France.

Informations juridiques, économiques, financières et techniques
Conditions de participation
Habilitation à exercer l'activité professionnelle:
1) The application letter DC1 or equivalent.
The application letter DC1 is available on the PPI4HPC website: https://ppi4hpc.eu
2) The application declaration DC2 or equivalent.
The application declaration DC2 is available on the PPI4HPC website: https://ppi4hpc.eu
Situation économique et financière:
3) A statement concerning the global turnover of the candidate and the turnover of the activity sector being the object of the procurement procedure, concerning the last three available financial exercises according to the date of creation of the company or the beginning of activity of the economic operator.
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4) Appropriate statements from banks or insurance companies providing evidence of insurance against relevant occupational risks.
5) Balance sheets or extracts from the balance sheets, for the last 3 years, for the economic operators for whom the drawing up of balance sheets is mandatory under the law.
Capacité technique et professionnelle:
6) A list of the principal deliveries or services performed by the candidate during the last 3 years, showing the amount, date, location and public or private recipient. The deliveries and services are evidenced by certificates from the recipient or by a declaration of the economic operator.
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7) A statement indicating the annual average staff of the candidate and the importance of the supervisory staff over the last 3 years.
8) A statement of the educational and professional qualifications of the candidate or of the management staff, and in particular, those responsible for the provision of the services or the conduct of work which have the same nature as the purpose of the procurement procedure.
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9) A description of the tools, equipment and technical equipment available to the candidate for the performance of the public contracts.
10) A description of the technical equipment as well as the measures used by the candidate to ensure the quality of and means for R and D.
11) Professional qualification certificates drawn up by independent bodies.
12) Certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or departments authorized to certify the conformity of supplies by references to certain technical specifications.

Procédure
Droit des marchés publics applicable: French procurement law.
Nombre minimum de candidats: 3
Nombre maximum de candidats: 6
Critères objectifs de sélection du nombre limité de candidats:
1) economic and financial standing of the candidate assessed with regard to the factor by which the candidate’s average annual revenue in 2016 and 2017 exceeds the budget of the lot as indicated in the Contract Notice (20%);
2) technical and professional ability of the candidate assessed with regard to the following subcriteria (80%):
— the quality of the principal deliveries or services performed by the candidate assessed with regard to the number of references for storage systems with a capacity of at least 10 PB installed since June 2017 (40%),
— the measures used by the candidate to ensure the quality of and means for R and D assessed with regard to the number of references to R and D projects (title, short summary and staff profile) since 2015, in which the candidate was involved with personnel executing R and D services (20%),
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— the educational and professional qualifications of the candidate assessed with regard to the number of experts the candidate has among their staff covering the following roles as well with respect to the coverage of all roles by different persons (20%):
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—— systems architect;
—— systems engineer;
—— data centre infrastructure specialist;
—— application / benchmarking specialist;
—— project manager.
1) economic and financial standing of the candidate assessed with regard to the factor by which the candidate’s average annual revenue in 2016 and 2017 exceeds the budget of the lot as indicated in the Contract Notice (30%);
2) technical and professional ability of the candidate assessed with regard to the following subcriteria (70%):
— the quality of the principal deliveries performed by the candidate assessed with regard to the number of references for systems listed in any of the Top500 lists published since June 2017 (30%),
— the measures used by the candidate to ensure the quality of and means for R and D assessed with regard to the number of references to R and D projects (title, short summary and staff profile) since 2015, in which the candidate was involved with personnel executing R and D services (15%),
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— the educational and professional qualifications of the candidate assessed with regard to the number of experts the candidate has among their staff covering the following roles as well with respect to the coverage of all roles by different persons (25%):
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—— systems architect,
—— systems engineer,
—— data centre infrastructure specialist,
—— application / benchmarking specialist,
The candidates who score at least 31% will qualify and be invited to participate in the dialogue.
Nombre maximum de candidats: 10
Critères objectifs de sélection du nombre limité de candidats:
1) economic and financial standing of the candidate assessed with regard to the factor by which the candidate’s average annual revenue in 2016 and 2017 exceeds the budget of the lot as indicated in the Contract Notice (50%);
2) technical and professional ability of the candidate assessed with regard to the following subcriteria (50%):
— the measures used by the candidate to ensure the quality of and means for R and D assessed with regard to the number of references to R and D projects (title, short summary and staff profile) since 2015, in which the candidate was involved with personnel executing R and D services (10%),
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— The educational and professional qualifications of the candidate assessed with regard to the number of experts the candidate has among their staff covering the following roles as well with respect to the coverage of all roles by different persons (10%):
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In the event that 2 or more candidates obtain the same score for tenth place, they will be qualified and be invited to participate in the dialogue.
Nombre maximum de candidats: 5
Critères objectifs de sélection du nombre limité de candidats:
— the quality of the principal deliveries performed by the candidate assessed with regard to the number of references for systems listed in any of the Top500 lists published since June 2017 (25%),
— the measures used by the candidate to ensure the quality of and means for R and D assessed with regard to the number of references to R and D projects (title, short summary and staff profile) since 2015, in which the candidate was involved with personnel executing R and D services (25%),
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— the educational and professional qualifications of the candidate assessed with regard to the number of experts the candidate has among their staff covering the following roles as well with respect to the coverage of all roles by different persons (5%):
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—— project manager;
— the qualification and availability of the staff, including supervisory staff, of the candidate assessed with regard to the number of persons dedicated to support for this kind of innovative system, with expertise high enough to support such a system and with the capacity to be on site in less than 24 hours (25%).
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The candidates who score at least 60% will qualify and be invited to participate in the dialogue.
Heure limite de réception des offres: 12:00
Date d'envoi des invitations: 2018-08-20 📅
Langues dans lesquelles les offres ou les demandes de participation peuvent être présentées: anglais 🗣️
Période de validité de l'offre: 6 mois

Pouvoir adjudicateur
Identité
Nom du pouvoir adjudicateur: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Pays: Paris 🏙️
Nom du pouvoir adjudicateur: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Cineca
Contact
Point de contact: Mrs. Laura Preud'homme
Adresse Internet: www.genci.fr 🌏
: https://www.bsc.es/ 🌏
: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN/Home/home_node.html 🌏
: https://www.cineca.it/ 🌏
URL des documents: https://ppi4hpc.eu 🌏

Référence
Informations complémentaires
Participation in the open market consultation (open dialogue event, one-to-one meetings) that was held as part of the preparation for this procurement is not a prerequisite for submitting a tender. For more information about the open market consultation Q and A, see https://ppi4hpc.eu/call-for-tender/questions-and-answers
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The requests to participate for each lot must be submitted in English for all 4 lots.
The candidates can:
— send their request to participate by a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt to the following address:
GENCI, To Ms. Laura Preud’homme, 6bis rue Auguste Vitu, 75015 Paris, France
— personally deliver their request to participate with confirmation of receipt Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00 to the same address.
For each lot, each request to participate must be submitted as one original hard copy as well as on a USB key. The documents of the request to participate contained on the flash drive must be identical to the original hard copy. In case of contradiction, the original hard copy will prevail over the elements contained on a flash drive.
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The request to participate of the candidate must be submitted in an envelope carrying the stamp of the candidate and the remark "Public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI) to buy innovative solutions of high-performance IT equipment for European supercomputing centres — lot nº X — Do not open.
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Additional information regarding Section I.3) Communication: access to the procurement documents is restricted pursuant to Article 41, II-3º and 5º of decree nº 2016-360 dated 25.3.2016.
More information:
See:
— the project website (see https://ppi4hpc.eu),
Management of the Q and As: all questions concerning the application phase must be addressed to achat@genci.fr and at the latest 14 calendar days before the deadline for submission of requests to participate. The answers will be published on the PPI4HPC website (https://ppi4hpc.eu) no later than 6 days before the deadline for receipt of the requests to participate.
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There is no restriction on the number of lots that can be awarded to the same candidate.

Informations complémentaires
Organe de révision
Nom: Tribunal de grande instance de Paris
Adresse postale: parvis du Tribunal de Paris
Commune postale: Paris
Code postal: 75017
Pays: France 🇫🇷
Téléphone: +33 144325151 📞
Service auprès duquel des informations sur la procédure de recours peuvent être obtenues
Identique à : Organe de révision
Source: OJS 2018/S 090-202138 (2018-05-09)
Informations complémentaires (2019-09-30)
Objet
Champ d'application du marché
Brève description:
This contract notice invites interested economic operators to submit tenders to a PPI procurement that addresses the following challenge: providing high-performance IT equipment for European supercomputing centres. The procurement involves 4 public procurers (BSC, JUELICH, CINECA and GENCI) located in four different countries (Spain, Germany, Italy and France) working together in a joint procurement. The purpose of the procurement is for each public procurer to purchase an innovative high-performance supercomputer and/or an innovative high-performance storage system that will be integrated in their computing centre. These systems are expected to be deployed in the time frame 2019-2021. Additional information under this section and the contract notice in its entirety are available on the PPI4HPC website at the following address: https://ppi4hpc.eu
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Métadonnées de l'avis
Type de document: Informations complémentaires
Vocabulaire commun pour les marchés publics (CPV)
Code: Matériel et fournitures informatiques 📦

Pouvoir adjudicateur
Identité
Nom du pouvoir adjudicateur: Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI)
Adresse postale: 6 bis rue Auguste Vitu

Référence
Dates
Date d'envoi: 2019-09-30 📅
Date de publication: 2019-10-02 📅
Identifiants
Numéro d'avis: 2019/S 190-461973
Se réfère à l'avis: 2018/S 090-202138
Numéro JO-S: 190
Informations complémentaires
Lot No 1 ‘Storage and computing infrastructure for high-performance data analytics’ was awarded to International Business Machines, SA Santa Hortensia, 26-28, 28002 Madrid, SPAIN. Date of conclusion of the contract: 18.9.2019. Lot No 4 ‘Framework Agreement for the acquisition, delivery, installation, maintenance and decommissioning of a high-performance and energy-efficient computing system towards the convergence of HPC, HPDA and AI’ was awarded to BULL SAS, Rue Jean Jaurès, BP68, 78340 Les Clayes-Sous-Bois, FRANCE. Date of conclusion of the contract: 29.3.2019.
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Objet
Champ d'application du marché
Brève description:
This contract notice invites interested economic operators to submit tenders to a PPI procurement that addresses the following challenge: providing high-performance IT equipment for European supercomputing centres.
The procurement involves 4 public procurers (BSC, JUELICH, CINECA and GENCI) located in four different countries (Spain, Germany, Italy and France) working together in a joint procurement. The purpose of the procurement is for each public procurer to purchase an innovative high-performance supercomputer and/or an innovative high-performance storage system that will be integrated in their computing centre. These systems are expected to be deployed in the time frame 2019-2021.
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Additional information under this section and the contract notice in its entirety are available on the PPI4HPC website at the following address: https://ppi4hpc.eu

Pouvoir adjudicateur
Contact
Point de contact: Mrs. Laura Preud'Homme
Source: OJS 2019/S 190-461973 (2019-09-30)
Avis d'attribution de marché (2020-05-07)
Objet
Champ d'application du marché
Brève description:
This contract award notice informs interested operators about the outcome of a tender. On 12 May 2018, a contract notice was published as part of the EU project PPI4HPC for this public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI). The PPI procurement purchases innovative solutions that address the following challenge: providing high-performance IT equipment for European supercomputing centres. The procurement involves four public procurers (BSC, JUELICH, CINECA and GENCI) located in four different countries (Spain, Germany, Italy and France) working together in a joint procurement. The purpose of the procurement is for each public procurer to purchase an innovative high-performance supercomputer and/or an innovative high-performance storage system that will be integrated in their computing centre. These systems are expected to be deployed in the time frame 2019-2021.
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Valeur totale du marché: 82 633 129 EUR 💰
Métadonnées de l'avis
Type de document: Avis d'attribution de marché

Procédure
Type de soumission: Sans objet

Pouvoir adjudicateur
Identité
Adresse postale: 6 bis, rue Auguste Vitu

Référence
Dates
Date d'envoi: 2020-05-07 📅
Date de publication: 2020-05-12 📅
Identifiants
Numéro d'avis: 2020/S 092-219297
Numéro JO-S: 92
Informations complémentaires
The abstracts of the winning tenders are available on https://ppi4hpc.eu/news/bsc-acquires-innovative-technology-optimised-storage-and-data-analysis Deployment of the innovative solutions is expected to take place between October 2019 and January 2020. Evaluation of operating the deployed solutions in real-life operational conditions is expected to take place between February 2020 and May 2020.
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Objet
Champ d'application du marché
Intitulé du lot: Storage and Computing Infrastructure for High-performance Data Analytics
Brève description:
For lot 1, one economic operator was selected, as it was the only that presented to this lot. The dialogue phase started with a first context meeting on 23 November 2018 and end of January 2019 as deadline to provide the first offer.
The first session of dialogue took place on 1 March 2019, providing feedback on the first offer received. During this meeting a new deadline was set to the company to provide next offer: April 1.
The second session of dialogue took place on 7 May 2019, and the final technical specifications were delivered to the company for providing their final offer(s) with a deadline to deliver its final offer before 7 June 2019.
Mid July 2019 the evaluation of the final offer was finished, allowing to start with the awarding process. Awarding process start of September. Contract was finally signed on 18 September 2019.
Contract implementation will consist of a deployment phase (which is expected to be completed 3 months after contract award) and an operational validation phase of 6 months — during which the solutions will be evaluated in real-life operational conditions).
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Evaluation will be done by BSC during deploy phase.
Nom du projet ou programme financé par l’UE: Grant agreement No 754271 — PPI4HPC This procurement receives funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under the grant agreement No 754271 — PPI4HPC (volume of EUR 73 000 000, excluding VAT — for more information, see https://ppi4hpc.eu). The EU has given a grant for this procurement but is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.
Informations complémentaires:
Deployment of the innovative solutions is expected to take place between October 2019 and January 2020. Evaluation of operating the deployed solutions in real-life operational conditions is expected to take place between February 2020 and May 2020.
Intitulé du lot: Acquisition, Delivery, Installation and Maintenance of a Supercomputer with Innovative Support for Data-intensive Applications
Informations complémentaires:
Deployment of the innovative solutions is expected to take place between September 2019 and March 2021. Evaluation of operating the deployed solutions in real-life operational conditions is expected to take place between February 2021 and August 2021.
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Intitulé du lot: Evolution of the Tier-0 System Towards Exascale Architectures
Brève description:
The goal of the lot is to procure a new supercomputing system that will replace the scale-out partition of MARCONI. With the deploy of the new system CINECA aims to reach a total computing power of the order of 50 PFlops featuring node architecture that maximise the performance throughput per energy unit. The procured resource integrated in the MARCONI infrastructure represents a new step towards the architectural convergence between high performance computing, high performance data analytics and A.I. and will be able to run computing and data intensive workloads by exploiting the most recent GPU accelerators, high IOPS disks and state-of the-art low latency interconnection.
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The procurement process lasted ten months and saw five economic operators qualify for this lot, but only four participated to the context meeting in March 2019 due to the withdrawal of one participant. Two subsequent meetings were set, on the 29 April 2019 and 19 June 2019, in order to review the technical roadmaps of the qualified candidates. To evaluate the TCO impact of the proposed solutions, CINECA released to all economic operators the benchmark instruction document and all the benchmark suite, on the 17 June 2019 through public online repository. The final offers, containing the committed results of the benchmarks and based on the final RFP requirements were submitted by three economic operators due to the withdrawal of one qualified candidate. The evaluation panel has opted to require further details to verify the congruity of the offered solutions with respect to the power constraints and the benchmark results, before submitting the final evaluation ranking.
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Contract implementation will consist of a deployment phase (which is expected to be completed 4 months after contract award) and an operational validation phase of 1 month — during which the solutions will be evaluated in real-life operational conditions). The evaluation phase will be conducted by CINECA staff specialists and selected external users, together with contractor’s engineers, with the aim to properly tune the system for production.
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Informations complémentaires:
The abstracts of the winning tenders are available on https://ppi4hpc.eu/news/marconi100-new-accelerated-gpu-cluster
Deployment of the innovative solutions is expected to take place between December 2019 and April 2020. Evaluation of operating the deployed solutions in real-life operational conditions is expected to take place between May 2020 and June 2020.
Intitulé du lot: Framework Agreement for the Acquisition, Delivery, Installation, Maintenance and Decommissioning of a High-performance and Energy-efficient Computing System Towards the Convergence of HPC, HPDA and AI
Brève description:
The goal of the lot is to increase, during the second half of 2019, the computing power installed in the TGCC (Très Grand Centre de Calcul du CEA, located near Paris) and make it available to French and European researchers. Targeting several tens of Petaflop/s, the new HPC resource will be seamlessly integrated into the system installed in early 2018 in the same location. The new system will provide a balanced architecture for scientific applications, including very high IO bandwidth connection to the storage system of the TGCC. In order to fulfil such requirements and to achieve a high-energy efficiency together with an excellent performance/TCO ratio towards exascale systems, GENCI expects innovative solutions both in terms of hardware (processors, interconnection network...) and in terms of software (novel programming models....) as well as strong support from the provider, particularly during early operation of the new system including a contribution to application porting and optimisation.
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The duration of this framework agreement is due to the availability of the equipment and facilities, the technical complexity of the solution to be implemented and the depreciation period of the equipment.
Contract implementation will include the installation of the new system followed by an acceptance phase consisting of a provisional acceptance phase and a pre-production qualification phase with the goal of checking that the system is performing as expected during an early operation stage. The pre-production qualification phase will last 3 months. An operational validation phase lasting 9 months will follow during which the solutions will be evaluated in real-life operational conditions.
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The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate in the PPI and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of their innovative solutions i.e. beyond this procurement. For reference, the worldwide market size of the HPC server markets was evaluated by Hyperion Research to USD 6.7 billion for the first half of 2019.
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Informations complémentaires:
The abstracts of the winning tenders are available on https://www.ppi4hpc.eu/news
Deployment of the innovative solutions is expected to take place between October 2019 and December 2019 Evaluation of operating the deployed solutions in real-life operational conditions is expected to take place between January 2020 and December 2020.
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Lieu d'exécution
Site principal ou lieu d'exécution:
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Carrer de Jordi Girona, 29-31, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, 52428 Jülich, GERMANY.
CINECA, Via Magnanelli, 6/3, 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BO, ITALIA.
CEA DAM Ile-De-France, TGCC (Très Grand Centre de calcul du CEA), Chemin Grand Rué, 91680 Bruyères Le Châtel, FRANCE.

Procédure
Droit des marchés publics applicable: French Procurement Law.
Critères d'attribution
Critère de qualité (nom): Technical value of the system design
Critère de qualité (pondération): 30 %
Critère de qualité (nom): Quality of services
Critère de qualité (pondération): 4 %
Critère de qualité (nom): Collaboration
Critère de coût (nom): Economic offer
Critère de coût (pondération): 15 %
Critère de coût (nom): Cost performance analysis based on the performance evaluation and the TCO evaluation
Critère de coût (pondération): 47 %
Critère de qualité (pondération): 40 %
15 %
5 %
Critère de coût (pondération): 40 %
Critère de qualité (pondération): 35 %
10 %
Critère de coût (pondération): 50 %
Critère de qualité (pondération): 20 %
Critère de coût (pondération): 60 %

Attribution du marché
Date de conclusion du contrat: 2019-09-18 📅
Nom: International Business Machines SA
Adresse postale: Santa Hortensia, 26-28, 28002
Commune postale: Madrid
Pays: Espagne 🇪🇸
Madrid 🏙️
Valeur totale du marché: 1 350 000 EUR 💰
Date de conclusion du contrat: 2020-02-06 📅
Nom: Bull GmbH
Adresse postale: Von-der-Wettern-Straße 27 51149 Köln
Commune postale: Köln
Pays: Allemagne 🇩🇪
Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt 🏙️
Valeur totale du marché: 24 200 000 EUR 💰
Date de conclusion du contrat: 2019-12-23 📅
Nom: IBM Italia S.p.A.
Adresse postale: Circonvallazione idroscalo — 20090
Commune postale: Segrate
Pays: Italie 🇮🇹
Milano 🏙️
Valeur totale du marché: 25 000 000 EUR 💰
Date de conclusion du contrat: 2019-03-29 📅
Nom: Bull sas
Adresse postale: Rue Jean Jaurès, BP68, 78340
Commune postale: Les Clayes-Sous-Bois
Pays: France 🇫🇷
Valeur totale du marché: 32 083 129 EUR 💰
Informations sur les appels d'offres
Nombre d'offres reçues: 1
3

Pouvoir adjudicateur
Contact
Point de contact: Edouard Brunel

Informations complémentaires
Organe de révision
Nom: Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris
Adresse postale: Parvis du Tribunal de Paris
Service auprès duquel des informations sur la procédure de recours peuvent être obtenues
Identique à : Organe de révision
Source: OJS 2020/S 092-219297 (2020-05-07)
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Région:
France Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Essonne
Fournisseurs:
Bull GmbH Bull SAS IBM Italia S.p.A. International Business Machines SA
Produits/services:
Machines, matériel et fourniture... Matériel et fournitures informatiques Machines de traitement des données (matériel) Unité centrale de traitement Superordinateur Plates-formes informatiques