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Acquisition, delivery, installation and hardware and software maintenance of innovate industrial grade supercomputer – for the european high performance computing joint undertaking (eurohpc ju)
Notice number: 00493171-2026
KEY INFORMATION
- Submission deadline
- • Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- Contracting authority
- European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
- Accepted Languages
- Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish
- Tender type
- Goods
- Contract Value
- Published date
- Jul 16, 2026
TENDER DESCRIPTION
This tender seeks the acquisition, delivery, installation, and comprehensive hardware and software maintenance of the INNOVATE Industrial-grade Supercomputer for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). The scope encompasses the system supply, including knowledge transfer and training, alongside specialist support for the design, deployment, tuning, and lifecycle maintenance of the Orchestrated computing partition platform, specifically OpenStack, and the Kubernetes environment. Proposers must demonstrate an annual turnover exceeding EUR 4,100,000 for the last two financial years. The contract duration is 60 months from the acceptance date of the final delivery, with an overall maximum duration of 68 months, and mandates compliance with various technologies including OCI Image Specification, Python 3.10+, PyTorch 2.1+, TensorFlow 2.13+, Kubernetes, Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS+, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9+, and OpenStack components like Nova, Neutron, and Cinder.
TENDER BRIEF
The contract duration is 60 months, starting from the acceptance date of the [first] [last] delivery. The contract resulting from this call for tenders will be concluded for at most 68 months, with details of initial duration and possible renewals set out in the draft contract.
The contract performance cannot begin before its entry into force. The performance includes two main parts:
1. The delivery and installation of the INNOVATE Industrial-grade Supercomputer (hardware and software) and related support services, including knowledge transfer and training ("System supply"). This system supply will be executed in a number of parts/deliveries, with details in Annex II (Contractor’s Tender). The contractor may only proceed to the next delivery with written consent from the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
2. The maintenance of the system (hardware and software) and related support services ("Maintenance"), which will commence from the acceptance date of the [first] [last] delivery.
A "Phase" is defined as a specific phase of the System/partition, detailing the time schedule, tasks, and deliverables for each party as outlined in Annex III Contractor’s Tender and the Project Plan.
Sources
- 1INNOVATE-Industrial-grade Supercomputer_Draft contract_V1.docx — “and related support services shall start from the acceptance date of the [first] [last] delivery in accordance with Article I.14.3 (Acceptance) and run for 60 months. I.3.4 The suspension of the performance of the contra…”
- 2INNOVATE_Tender Specifications_Administrative Part-Award-Criteria -FINAL_V1.pdf — “to the general budget of the Union (recast) (OJ L, 2024/2509, 26.09.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj) 5 conditions set out in the draft contract, against any payment due under the contract. The contr…”
- Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image Specification v1.1.0 or later
- Singularity Image Format as defined by Sylabs
- RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
- Python (version 3.10 or newer)
- NumPy
- SciPy
- Pandas
- scikit-learn
- Matplotlib
- PyTorch (version 2.1 or newer)
- Keras
- JAX
- ONNX Runtime
- TensorFlow (version 2.13 or newer)
- CUDA-compatible toolkits
- Megatron-LM
- Accelerate
- Lightning
- DeepSpeed
- TorchElastic
- Kubernetes
- Ubuntu Pro version 24.04 LTS or higher
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 9 or higher
- 64-bit kernel version 5.14 or newer
- PXE or equivalent protocol for network boot
- Canonical Livepatch
- Red Hat Satellite
- Landscape
- Ansible
- Puppet
- SELinux
- AppArmor
- FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic modules
- CIS or equivalent hardening benchmarks
- LDAP-based directory service (for centralized user authentication)
- OCI-compliant container runtimes
- containerd
- Docker
- NVIDIA NGC
- x86_64 instruction set architecture
- ARM 64-bit (AArch64) instruction set architecture
- Intel VT-x
- AMD-V
- ARM Virtualization Extensions
- IOMMU
- KVM
- Intel TDX
- AMD SEV
- ARM Realm Management Extension
- OpenStack
- Nova (compute)
- Neutron (networking)
- Cinder (volume management)
Sources
- 1INNOVATE-technical-specifications-FINAL_V1.pdf — “as the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image Specification v1.1.0 or later, or the Singularity Image Format as defined by Sylabs, to ensure interoperability with modern containerized environments. The solution shall incl…”
- 2INNOVATE-Response-Template-FINAL_V1.docx — “such as the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image Specification v1.1.0 or later, or the Singularity Image Format as defined by Sylabs, to ensure interoperability with modern containerized environments. The solution shall…”
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- INNOVATE-Response-Template-FINAL_V1.docx216 KBDOCX
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