Services - 19573-2016
20/01/2016    S13

Switzerland-Geneva: Design and execution of research and development

2016/S 013-019573

Prior information notice

This notice is for prior information only

Services

Legal Basis:
Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) — Lead procurer
Town: Geneva 23
NUTS code: CH013 Genève
Postal code: 1211
Country: Switzerland
Contact person: Dante Gregorio
E-mail: dante.gregorio@cern.ch
Telephone: +41 227676335
Fax: +41 227669912
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.cern.ch/
Address of the buyer profile: http://helix-nebula.eu/
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Postal address: PO Box 3640
Town: Karlsruhe
NUTS code: DE122 Karlsruhe
Postal code: 76021
Country: Germany
Contact person: Andreas Heiss
E-mail: andreas.heiss@kit.edu
Telephone: +49 721608-25639
Fax: +49 721608-24972
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.kit.edu/
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: SURFsara
Postal address: PO Box 94613
Town: Amsterdam
NUTS code: NL326 Groot-Amsterdam
Postal code: 1090 GP
Country: Netherlands
Contact person: Axel Berg
E-mail: axel.berg@surfsara.nl
Telephone: +31 208001300
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.surf.nl/
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies
Postal address: Campus UAB. Edifici Cn. Bellaterra, Cerdanyola Del Valles
Town: Barcelona
NUTS code: ES51 Cataluña
Postal code: 08193
Country: Spain
Contact person: Mari Carmen Porto
E-mail: mporto@pic.es
Telephone: +34 935814109
Fax: +34 935814110
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.ifae.es/
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Postal address: Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Town: Swindon
NUTS code: UKK14 Swindon
Postal code: SN2 1SZ
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Denise Small
E-mail: denise.small@stfc.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1235445121
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.stfc.ac.uk
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton (DESY)
Postal address: Notkestrasse 85
Town: Hamburg
NUTS code: DE600 Hamburg
Postal code: 22607
Country: Germany
Contact person: Martin Gasthuber
E-mail: martin.gasthuber@desy.de
Telephone: +49 4089982564
Fax: +49 4089942564
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.desy.de/
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Postal address: 3 rue Michel-Ange
Town: Paris Cedex 16
NUTS code: FR101 Paris
Postal code: 75794
Country: France
Contact person: Natacha Moquet
E-mail: nmoquet@admin.in2p3.fr
Telephone: +33 144964318
Fax: +33 144964914
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.cnrs.fr/
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Postal address: Meyerhofstrasse 1
Town: Heidelberg
NUTS code: DE125 Heidelberg
Postal code: 69117
Country: Germany
Contact person: Steven Newhouse
E-mail: snewho@ebi.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1223494651
Fax: +44 1223494468
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.embl.de/
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Postal address: Via Enrico Fermi, 40, Frascati
Town: Rome
NUTS code: ITD55 Bologna
Postal code: 00044
Country: Italy
Contact person: Martina Allegro
E-mail: martina.allegro@bo.infn.it
Telephone: +39 0512095261
Fax: +39 0512095080
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.infn.it/
I.2)Information about joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
In the case of joint procurement involving different countries, state applicable national procurement law:

Specific requirements for innovation procurement (PCP/PPI) supported by Horizon 2020 grants; Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement; General Conditions for Invitations to Tender by CERN.

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3)Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5)Main activity
Other activity: High Energy Physics Laboratory

Section II: Object

II.1)Scope of the procurement
II.1.1)Title:

HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement.

Reference number: 687614
II.1.2)Main CPV code
73300000 Design and execution of research and development - JA17
II.1.3)Type of contract
Services
II.1.4)Short description:

This PIN is to announce an open market consultation and early announcement of the HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) of a joint science cloud platform for the European research community. The cloud platform will combine several sub-challenges requiring a combination of services at the IaaS level integrated into an environment supporting the full life-cycle of science work-flows.

This PCP will develop a set of requirements for cloud services addressing the needs of a group of buyers from across Europe that serve multiple data-intensive research communities. The R&D services to be developed will need to be integrated with the resources in data centres operated by the buyers group and European-scale publicly funded e-Infrastructures using open source solutions to build a hybrid platform on which a competitive marketplace of European cloud players can develop their own services for a wider range of users beyond research and science.

II.1.5)Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: 5 383 332.00 EUR
II.1.6)Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.2)Description
II.2.3)Place of performance
NUTS code: 00 Not specified
Main site or place of performance:

R&D services to be developed will be integrated with resources in data centres operated by buyers group and European-scale publicly funded e-Infrastructures using open source solutions (see II.1.4) above).

II.2.4)Description of the procurement:

The buyers group need a means to increase analysis capability and capacity offered to their users to keep pace with growth in scientific data that needs to be analysed. The cloud platform must be available to end-users distributed around the world in an on-demand and elastic manner with Reliability, Availability and Security (RAS). This will include providing cost-effective services exploiting capacity-style CPU cycles and online storage connected via high-speed networks that can execute a range of scientific workloads from compute intensive simulations to data intensive analysis. The core of this innovative approach lies in the federation with publicly funded e-Infrastructures based on open source solutions, to build a hybrid platform on top of which a range of higher-level user specific services can be deployed. Emphasis will be given to trusted cloud services supporting internationally recognised security standards capable of supporting an open ecosystem federating multiple suppliers.

II.2.14)Additional information

The PCP duration is 1.1.2016 to 30.6.2018. R&D services contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers in parallel to compare competing solutions. This will be done in a phased approach with a framework agreement covering 3 phases (solution design, prototyping, pilot deployments made available to end users from research communities supported by buyers group) over a period of approx. 24 months.

II.3)Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
13/05/2016

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Description
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3)Additional information:

The open market consultation will be held at CERN on 17.3.2016. Interested parties are requested to register for the event no later than 29.2.2016 at http://cern.ch/go/7LLP

Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. The event can also be followed online via a webcast for registered participants. Background information about the PCP and information (Q&A) provided during and as a result of the open market consultation can be retrieved from the Helix Nebula website www.helix-nebula.eu/

This PIN and the open market consultation are not part of any pre-qualification or selection process. Responding to this PIN and attending the open market consultation is not a prerequisite for participation in any subsequent procurement.

This PCP procurement receives funding under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 687614 www.helix-nebula.eu/

The EU is however not participating as a contracting authority in this procurement.

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
14/01/2016