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UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED

Prior Information Notice (EOI) - UKRI STFC Scientific Computing Department Data Management System

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48782000
ValueValue not published
Deadline10 Apr 2019
Published27 Mar 2019
RegionSouth West
Timeline
Published 27 Mar 2019ClosedCloses 10 Apr 2019
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The brief

UKRI's Scientific and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), specifically The Scientific Computing Department (SCD) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), intends to purchase replacement Data Management software to support its function of providing an active archive for scientific data.

The majority of the data is for the worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (wLCG) Tier-1 archive of physics data, from the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN, managed as part of the UK GridPP project.

In addition, there are also significant holdings of climate modelling data from the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA), data from Diamond Light Source Ltd (DLS) and data from STFC's own facilities.

Much of this data must be stored indefinitely.

The existing data management system cannot be supported long-term.

Therefore an alternative data management system software is required to replace it.

The replacement software must be integrated with any mandatory interfaces required by existing user communities.

The solution must be highly scalable and once procured is expected to be in use at least until 2030.

Please see the attached document for more details on this requirement.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

UKRI's Scientific and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

UKRI's Scientific and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), specifically The Scientific Computing Department (SCD) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), intends to purchase replacement Data Management software to support its function of providing an active archive for scientific data.

02

Much of this data must be stored

Much of this data must be stored indefinitely.

03

Therefore an alternative data management system software

Therefore an alternative data management system software is required to replace it.

04

The replacement software must be integrated

The replacement software must be integrated with any mandatory interfaces required by existing user communities.

05

The solution must be highly scalable

The solution must be highly scalable and once procured is expected to be in use at least until 2030.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
0076260a-632d-428a-9826-5de82ca1423c
Stage
preprocurement · Closed
Source
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Buyer ref
UK SBS PR19035 PIN
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