Procurement Summary
Country : Canada
Summary : Paice - Computing Infrastructure
Deadline : 08 Apr 2024
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Notice Type : Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 98584786
Document Ref. No. : RFP 2024-0010
Competition : ICB
Financier : Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership : Public
Tender Value : Refer Document
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The PAICE project, led by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC), CIFAR, three AI institutes (Amii, Mila, and the Vector Institute) and their host site partners (respectively, the University of Alberta, University of Laval, and University of Toronto), will acquire and support three dedicated computing systems for AI research. The $65M total funding will provide and operate computing capacity for researchers at Amii, Mila, and the Vector Institute, increasing available specialized computing capacity and related services. Equipment to meet site-specific constraints and national standards, including cybersecurity policies. The west regional PAICE project is expected to spend a total of $21.5M including operations and facilities, led by the University of Alberta and Amii, and is expected to make two procurements separated by one or two years. The first west regional procurement is split into two phases: a Supply Chain Risk Assessment phase and then a Proposal Evaluation phase. Given the context of abnormally long procurement delivery times common in 2023, shorter delivery times may be given consideration when being scored in the evaluation of proposals in that criteria category under the expectation that delivery should not take longer than 6 months unless indicated in the category components below.
Summary information
Notice type : Request for Proposal
Language(s) : English
Region(s) of delivery : Alberta
Region of opportunity : Alberta
Procurement method : Competitive – Open Bidding
Commodity - GSIN Click the links below to see a list of notices associated with the GSIN codes. : N7010103 COMPUTERS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS, LARGE SCALE (MAY INCLUDE OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE) OTHER THAN IBM PLUG COMPATIBLE See a list of notices associated with this GSIN code N7010103 COMPUTERS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS, LARGE SCALE (MAY INCLUDE OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE) OTHER THAN IBM PLUG COMPATIBLE N7010130 COMPUTERS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS, SPECIAL PURPOSE, INCLUDES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ARRAY, PARALLEL, VECTOR ETC. See a list of notices associated with this GSIN code N7010130 COMPUTERS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS, SPECIAL PURPOSE, INCLUDES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ARRAY, PARALLEL, VECTOR ETC. N7010102 COMPUTERS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS - LARGE SCALE (MAY INCLUDE OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE) IBM PLUG COMPATIBLE See a list of notices associated with this GSIN code N7010102 COMPUTERS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS - LARGE SCALE (MAY INCLUDE OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE) IBM PLUG COMPATIBLE N7010100 COMPUTERS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS, LARGE AND MEDIUM See a list of notices associated with this GSIN code N7010100 COMPUTERS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS, LARGE...
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