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General Information

  • Contract Opportunity Type: Solicitation (Original)
  • Original Published Date: Aug 08, 2023 11:50 am CDT
  • Original Date Offers Due: Aug 22, 2023 03:00 pm CDT
  • Inactive Policy: 15 days after date offers due
  • Original Inactive Date: Sep 06, 2023
  • Initiative:
    • None

Classification

  • Original Set Aside:
  • Product Service Code: DB10 - IT AND TELECOM - COMPUTE AS A SERVICE: MAINFRAME/SERVERS
  • NAICS Code:
    • 334111 - Electronic Computer Manufacturing
  • Place of Performance:
    Batavia , IL 60510
    USA

Description

Fermi Research Alliance (FRA) requests a firm fixed price quotation for the servers in accordance with the specifications and terms and Conditions referenced below and attached.

Servers:

   Qty of 13 Servers with the following specifications:

Dual Socket AMD EPYC 7003 GPU Server requirements:

  • QTY (2) AMD 7003 series processors, minimum 32 cores / 64 threads,
    minimum 2.80GHz base clock
  • 512 GB ECC RAM
  • 10 x PCIe Gen4 x16 slots
  • QTY (2) Micron 960 5300 PRO (SYSTEM MIRROR on raid card)
  • QTY (1) 7.68TB 2.5” Datacenter SSD – Data
  • Intel 100GE network adapter with QSFP optics recommended by card manufacturer (Intel)
  • 2 x NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs with NV Link Bridge
  • Assembly/Configuration/Testing with either
    • Red hat Enterprise Linux 9
    • Alma Linux 9
    • Rocky Linux 9
  • Five Year Parts Repair/Replacement with On-Site Labor Warranty
  • IPMI configured with specified IP’s and single password
    • Vendor requests IP’s when building
  • Spreadsheet of names, IP’s, and MAC’s of ALL interfaces.
    • Vendor requests names when building
  • All machines must be labelled front and back with machine names.

    Must provide Red Hat and ISO 9001-2006 certification

Vendor will configure IPMI interfaces with specified IPs and a single password, provided.  Fermilab will provide the IPs and password at build time.

Vendor shall provide a spreadsheet mapping system names, serial numbers, IPs of all interfaces, and MACs of all interfaces.

Fermilab will provide system names and IP addresses at build time. Vendor shall label all machines, front and back, with the machine name.

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All motherboards supplied by the vendor must have the same version of all embedded firmware (BIOS, BMC, Ethernet, InfiniBand, disk drives, etc.).  All compute servers must have their BIOS parameters configured and specified by Fermilab.  All compute servers must have IPMI parameters, including IP addresses, configured as specified by Femilab; all IPMI sensor data repositories (SDR’s) must be preloaded loaded so that sensor data (temperatures, fan speeds, voltages) can be read via IPMI from each compute server.  All compute servers must have BIOS serial redirect configured to allow access to the BIOS screens using serial over LAN; serial redirect should be configured to “always” (i.e., not just during POST).

All manufacturers specified must be used unless specifically identified or a request for an alternate is requested and approved.  Parts not supported in the OS installation kernel and part of the distribution of the OS will be considered unacceptable.

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Freight Terms:  FOB Destination – Fermilab Batavia, IL.  All freight charges must be included in the quotation.

The following Terms and Conditions shall become a part of any purchase order resulting from this solicitation:

  • FRA Terms and Conditions for Commercial Products or Commercial Services          (Rev 05.2023)

The above referenced terms and conditions are available on the Fermilab Procurement Services website. Hard copy forms are available upon request or are in PDF Format and can be accessed at the following Web address:

https://procurement.fnal.gov/terms-conditions/

The representation forms provided must be completed in their entirety and returned with your offer, as follows:

  • Supplier Annual Representations & Certifications (Rev. 3)
  • PUR-466 Proposal Certs (Rev. 1)

All questions, clarifications and communications shall be made by 17 Aug 2023, 3:00PM, CST and directed to:

   Karen T Watson

   Procurement Specialist I

   Phone: 331-575-3548

E-mail: ktwatson@fnal.gov

(Submit your quotation electronically to this e-mail address as well.)

This is a Low Price Technically Acceptable source selection. Award shall be made to the supplier who is deemed responsible by FRA, whose proposal is technically acceptable and offers the lowest evaluated price. FRA intends to award without discussions.

Exceptions to specifications and extra charges for containers, tooling, etc. must be clearly indicated.

COMPANY NAME                                                ADDRESS                                  TERMS                        FOB                              SUBMITTED BY:                           DATE SUBMITTED:                                            

MATERIALS, SUPPLIES OR SERVICES RESULTING FROM THIS PROPOSAL ARE FOR WORK DONE UNDER PRIME CONTRACT NO. DE-AC02-07CH11359 WITH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. ANY ITEMS COVERED BY G.S.A. CONTRACTS SHOULD BE SO INDICATED.

Karen T Watson

Procurement Dept./July 2017                                                                              Karen T Watson, Procurement Specialist I









 

Contact Information

Contracting Office Address

  • Kirk Rd. & Pine St.
  • Batavia , IL 60510
  • USA

Primary Point of Contact

Secondary Point of Contact





History

  • Sep 06, 2023 10:55 pm CDTSolicitation (Original)