# JHI Natural Sciences System Upgrade

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [University of Central Lancashire](/buyers/university-of-central-lancashire/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Dell Corporation](/contract-winners/dell/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £31,253
- Tender value: £31,253
- Award date: 2 March 2023
- Published: 2 March 2023
- Contract start: 3 March 2023
- Contract end: 30 June 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: c2c64f07-d4e0-472e-a0f7-89956dd520b5-620634
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f305f3de-f31c-4df8-94c3-5adda2a5b452

## Description

The equipment to be procured will equip five Dell servers purchased in 2022 and currently under a current Maintenance and support agreement with an Infiniband network fabric\. This is needed to run parallel simulation code written by JHI researchers and used in approximately half the total number of astrophysics research strands being undertaken within the JHI\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c2c64f07-d4e0-472e-a0f7-89956dd520b5-620634)