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Provision of High Performance Computing services for interim Irish National HPC service
- Public buyer
- University of Galway (ID 1400)
Galway - Place of performance
- Galway
- Amount awarded
- €6,398,400 excl. VAT
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication
The buyer consulted a few companies directly: it is no longer possible to take part. - Publication
- 31 August 2026
- Notice language
- English
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Description
The infrastructure providing the national High Performance Computing (HPC) service to Irish researchers reached end of life in Nov 2023. A replacement system was not available in time and so to maintain computational capability for Irish researchers it was necessary to tender for compute cycles and storage space on equivalent foreign HPC systems which can offer users a familiar environment and enhanced capability for the interim period while the new Irish platform is procured and commissioned. The services provided via this contract (CON1591/2023) are access to a specialist HPC infrastructure and technical support.
Researchers are then allocated resources on this platform by ICHEC based on a scientific and technical review of proposals and ICHEC is invoiced by LuxProvide for the amount of storage and compute resources actually used.
CPV codes
European codes that classify what the contract is about. They are how we find the tenders for your trade.
73000000
Winning prices for comparable contracts
- A quarter below
- €48,750
- Median
- €85,000
- A quarter above
- €234,031
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Source : TED – Office des publications de l'Union européenne © Union européenne, données retraitées. Reference 596805-2026.