On 29/06/10 10:58, Alessandra Forti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The EU tender kicks in at 150k. Manchester University offered me the
> option of a fast track procedure with pre selected vendors. I decided to
> go for the full tender because it the Uni suppliers were mostly high end
> ones and this drastically reduced the choice for us to basically one
> vendor.
>
> If you can chose which suppliers to invite to tender I would go for the
> usual suspect. All the suppliers working with HEP have benchmarked their
> machines with HEPSPEC kits and know that they don't have to offer you
> exotic kits.
Thanks Alessandra. We can't choose which suppliers to invite, but we
have the option of inviting the five who have server agreements with
UCL, and this includes some of the usual suspects. If we wanted to go
outside these five we would have to open it up to everyone, and deal
with a lot more bureaucracy, and the process would take a lot longer. In
this case the extra hassle does not seem worthwhile.
Cheers,
Ben
>
> cheers
> alessandra
>
> Martin Bly wrote:
>> Response in-line...
>>
>> Martin.
>
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