RFP Cedar ARC System IBM TS4500 Tape Library Component Replacement

Please note the RFP document is only available to download from  www.merx.com.

Responses MUST be submitted through the MERX online submission process in accordance with the submission instructions set out in the MERX Electronic Bid Submission Supplier Guide. For additional support, proponents may contact the MERX Call Centre, available by phone at 1-800-964-6379 or 613-727-4900 or by e-mail at merx.@merx.com. 

Project MERX Reference number: 0000265653
Solicitation number: SFU 2024-ES-348

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SFU is a comprehensive public university located in British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1965, SFU has been ranked as one of Canada's top three comprehensive universities for nearly 20 years.

University enrollment exceeds 30,000 students, spreading over 3 campuses in Burnaby, Vancouver, and Surrey. In addition to the growing student population, the SFU community includes 6,500 faculty and staff, more than 130,000 alumni and many members from the greater community. 

Cedar, housed at Simon Fraser University (SFU), is the largest general-purpose computing system in support of Advanced Research Computing (ARC) in Canada and runs a diverse set of code in support of advanced materials science, drug discovery, and climate science, as well as AI, machine learning, and the digital humanities and others.

This RFP is to for extending the warranty of the IBM TS4500 tape library and required component replacements. The proposed infrastructure will be required to be maintained and available throughout its useful lifespan by SFU’s Research Computing Group (RCG) in consultation with other national host sites and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada Federation teams for the period of 2025-2030

Please see the RFP document for details.