Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)Official name: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Postal address: Genève 23
Town: Geneva
Postal code: 1211
Country: Switzerland
Contact person: CERN
For the attention of: Christophe Veys
E-mail: Christophe.Veys@cern.ch
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.cern.ch
I.2)Type of the contracting authorityEuropean institution/agency or international organisation
I.3)Main activityOther: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authoritiesThe contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
Official name: SURFsara
Postal address: PO Box 94613
Town: Amsterdam
Postal code: 1090
Country: Netherlands
Official name: Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies
Postal address: Campus UAB, Edifici Cn. Bellaterra, Cerdanyola Del Valles
Town: Barcelona
Postal code: 08193
Country: Spain
Official name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Postal address: Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Town: Swindon
Postal code: SN2 1SZ
Country: United Kingdom
Official name: The European Synchrotron (ESRF)
Postal address: 71 avenue des Martyrs
Town: Grenoble
Postal code: 38000
Country: France
Official name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton (DESY)
Postal address: Notkestraße 85
Town: Hamburg
Postal code: 22607
Country: Germany
Official name: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Postal address: 3 rue Michel-Ange
Town: Paris Cedex 16
Postal code: 75794
Country: France
Official name: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Postal address: Meyerhofstraße 1
Town: Heidelberg
Postal code: 69117
Country: Germany
Official name: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Postal address: Via Enrico Fermi 40, Frascati
Town: Rome
Postal code: 00044
Country: Italy
Official name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Postal address: PO Box 3640
Town: Karlsruhe
Country: Germany
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract
Award Notice Phase 3 within The Helix Nebula Science Cloud PCP (HNSciCloud — Pre-commercial Procurement)
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performanceServices
Service category No 8: Research and development services
NUTS code
II.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
This award notice is published after the evaluation of the tenders submitted in the framework of Phase 3 of the HNSciCloud PCP. Tenderers were invited to submit offers for Research and Development (R&D) service contracts for Phase 3, with the aim to develop a pilot platform. In Phase 3, the contractors shall implement their design, as established in Phase 1, and expand the prototype developed and approved by the buyers group in Phase 2 in areas such as performance, scalability, portability and security. The contractors shall provide training and consultancy services and establish a set of user /developer and operations documents for the pilot platform.
The access to and use of the pilot platform shall allow the buyers group to execute a suite of tests and /or selected workloads. The tests shall address multiple aspects of the functional specifications such as security, performance and reliability.
II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services, 73300000 Design and execution of research and development, 72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, 72212211 Platform interconnectivity software development services, 72310000 Data-processing services, 72322000 Data management services
II.1.6)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no
II.2)Total final value of contract(s)
II.2.1)Total final value of contract(s)
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedureOpen
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteriaThe most economically advantageous tender in terms of
1. Non-technical award criteria. Weighting 20
2. Technical award criteria. Weighting 30
3. Price. Weighting 50
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auctionAn electronic auction has been used: no
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
IT-4190/Phase3
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: X-139 V.1)Date of contract award decision:18.1.2018
V.2)Information about offersNumber of offers received: 3
V.3)Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been takenOfficial name: RHEA System SA
Town: Wavre
Postal code: 1300
Country: Belgium
V.4)Information on value of contract
V.5)Information about subcontractingThe contract is likely to be sub-contracted: yes
Value or proportion of the contract likely to be sub-contracted to third parties:
Not known
Contract No: X-138 V.1)Date of contract award decision:18.1.2018
V.2)Information about offersNumber of offers received: 3
V.3)Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been takenOfficial name: T-Systems
Town: Darmstadt
Country: Germany
V.4)Information on value of contract
V.5)Information about subcontractingThe contract is likely to be sub-contracted: yes
Value or proportion of the contract likely to be sub-contracted to third parties:
Not known
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about European Union fundsThe contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: yes
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): Funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement no 687614.
VI.2)Additional information:
VI.3)Procedures for appeal
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal proceduresOfficial name: CERN arbitration procedure
Country: Switzerland
VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:16.2.2018