# Purchase of specialist high performance computing kit

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Sheffield Hallam University](/buyers/sheffield-hallam-university/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Q Associates Limited
- Award value: £57,530
- Tender value: £57,530
- Award date: 8 April 2022
- Published: 27 October 2022
- Contract start: 9 April 2022
- Contract end: 8 April 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 5699393c-36f0-4208-a8b8-4b2c629b56a4-584624
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f3e48bcc-8f14-409e-a7d8-63ba3c02cae5

## Description

Sheffield Hallam University identified a need for 2 Supermicro Servers\. We decided to award to this supplier as they met the exact configuration requested due to a shortage of the specific GPU accelerators

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/5699393c-36f0-4208-a8b8-4b2c629b56a4-584624)