Framework Market Survey concerning the supply of servers and disk storage.

Item Description:

CERN intends to place frame contracts, for a duration of one year each, with more than one company, for the supply of servers as well as disk storage for Physics Data Processing, Acquisition and Control. Servers are standard rack-mountable PC systems while the storage is designed around standard rack-mountable SAS JBOD expansion units. It is foreseen to acquire a volume of 570,000 HS06 for the servers and 100,000 TB for the storage. The supply will be delivered on the CERN sites, including Meyrin, Prévessin and the physics experiments.

Interested firms must be ISO 9001 certified and be an Intel Tier 1 supplier or an Intel Premier Provider, or have an equivalent business and technical relationship with AMD. Some tenders require servers and storage compatible with Windows 2016 and/or certified for RedHat Enterprise Linux 7. Off-site (return to base) warranty services for three or in some cases up to five years are required. Some tender may also require on-site support at CERN premises outside Geneva.

Market Survey scheduled for dispatch:

Fourth quarter 2018

Invitation to Tender scheduled to dispatch:

First quarter 2019

Contacts and Interest in being contacted:

To express an interest please send an e-mail to procurement.service@cern.ch
Technically: E. Bonfillou Eric.Bonfillou@cern.ch
Commercially: F. Najeh Fatima.Najeh@cern.ch