Fakta om udbudet

EU-nr

2023/S 066-195736

Offentliggjort

03.04.2023

Udbudstype

Udbud med forhandling uden forudgående offentliggørelse

Udbyder

University of Copenhagen

Acquisition of a Quantum Orchestration Platform

University of Copenhagen

Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Supplies

Legal Basis:

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority/entity

I.1) Name and addresses

Official name: University of Copenhagen
Postal address: Nørregade 10
Town: Copenhagen K
NUTS code: DK01 Hovedstaden
Postal code: 1165
Country: Denmark
Contact person: Mahmut Yüksel
E-mail: fgn253@ku.dk
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.KU.dk

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.5) Main activity

Education

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title:

Acquisition of a Quantum Orchestration Platform

II.1.2) Main CPV code

38424000 Measuring and control equipment

II.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

II.1.4) Short description:

The Niels Bohr Institute is part of the Faculty of SCIENCE at the University of Copenhagen. The Niels Bohr Institute has a 100 year long tradition of excellence within science, in particular within the area of quantum physics. The institute was inaugurated on March 3, 1921, by Professor Niels Bohr. We are approx. 430 researchers, 70 administrative and technical staff, 100 PhD students and 400 students. The European Physical Society has declared the Niels Bohr Institute a Historic Site of great international importance for the development of physics and research.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: 700 000.00 DKK

II.2) Description

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code: DK01 Hovedstaden

II.2.4) Description of the procurement:

The equipment will be used to control few-qubit processors based on spin qubits, with focus on real-time qubit stabiliization, pulse calibration and fidelity optimization, conditional conherent control with ultra-low latencies, benchmarking and quantum algorithm execution. Programmability, feedback speed and FPGA-based live signal generation is central for the products intended use.

II.2.5) Award criteria

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: no

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

II.2.14) Additional information

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
- absence of competition for technical reasons
Additional deliveries by the original supplier ordered under the strict conditions stated in the directive

Explanation:

Randomized benchmarking and related techniques are a requirement for NQCP. OPX has the unique capability to implement arbitrarily long delays between pulses for coherence measurements of long-lived qubit states (such as silicon spin qubits) as well as generating pulse sequences containing an unlimited number of pulses, potentially with varying amplitudes, frequencies, phases, or durations. NQCP will also assess more advanced quantum computation tasks and circuits, incl. quantum state teleportation and quantum error correction. Mid-circuits measurements will be required on a time scale as short as possible, to maximize resulting fidelities. OPX has the unique capability to produce such pulses, as conditioning or modifying pulse generation based on measurements results, realizing feedback latency on timescales suitable for the demanding requirements of quantum experiments.

Compatibility with existing software and control techniques in the Copenhagen spin qubits labs will be required, due to the collaborative nature of NQCP development, including generating FPGA-enhanced pulse generation via phyton-based scripts and QUA scripts used and to-be developed on existing setups. Currently, three existing OPX systems are already in our NBI labs.

IV.1.3) Information about framework agreement

IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

IV.2) Administrative information

Section V: Award of contract/concession

V.2) Award of contract/concession

V.2.1) Date of contract award decision:

24/12/2022

V.2.2) Information about tenders

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

Official name: Quantum Machines
Postal address: Hamasger 35
Town: Tel Aviv
NUTS code: IL Israel
Postal code: 6721407
Country: Israel

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: yes

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 700 000.00 DKK

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information:

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Official name: Danish Public Contracts Appeal Board
Postal address: Nævnenes hus, tolboden 2
Town: Viborg
Postal code: 8800
Country: Denmark
E-mail: NH@naevneneshus.dk
Telephone: +45 72405600
Internet address: www.KLFU.dk

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

29/03/2023