# GPUs as a service

- **Source:** TED · `697038-2025`
- **Buyer:** Syddansk Universitet
- **Published:** 2025-10-22
- **Deadline:** 2025-11-20
- **Estimated value:** 80,000,000 DKK
- **CPV codes:** 72310000, 30211500, 30210000, 72300000, 72400000, 72000000, 48820000, 72514100, 72510000, 72600000
- **Place-of-performance NUTS:** DK031, DNK
- **Buyer-address NUTS:** —
- **Notice type:** cn-standard / 16

## Procedure details

Source lists may span several lots; list positions do not establish relationships.

### Procedure Types

- open

### Award Criterion Names

- Pris
- Quality

### Award Criterion Descriptions

- Re. Price The bidding prices will be considered a total bidding price and is evaluated on the basis of the net prices specified by the tenderer, cf. Annex 2 – Schedule of prices compared to the annual usage per year estimated by the Contracting Authority. All prices must be specified in Danish Kroner (DKK), excluding VAT, but including all other taxes.
- Re. Quality The sub-criterion ‘quality’ is evaluated on the basis of the tenderer’s fulfilment of the requests described in Annex 1 – Specification of requirements. Under Quality, the requests are weighted as follows: 3.2.4 Compute Infrastructure 2: 15% 3.2.8 High-speed compute fabric 2: 20% 3.2.10 GPU Scalability 2: 15% 3.2.12 GPU Scalability 4: 10% 3.2.16 Storage 4: 20% 3.2.17 Storage 5: 10% 3.2.19 Management Environment 2: 10%

### Submission Urls

- https://www.comdia.com/sdu/tenderinformationshow.aspx?Id=581342

## Description

This tender relates to a Framework agreement for the delivery of GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) to support the national research cloud service UCloud. The service will provide researchers, universities, and public institutions in Denmark with secure, scalable, and high-performance access to GPU computing resources for data-intensive research, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing (HPC). With more than 17,000 users today and demand accelerating, UCloud is experiencing unprecedented growth. At the current trajectory, the platform is expected to reach around 50,000 users by 2030. The interactive nature of the service leads to significant fluctuations in infrastructure demand, particularly for GPU nodes. To support this growth and variability, UCloud requires access to an infrastructure pool that can scale rapidly and reliably to very large sizes on demand. The purpose of this tender is to establish a sovereign and secure GPUaaS infrastructure, physically located in Denmark, capable of handling sensitive personal data in compliance with Danish and EU regulations. The solution will be integral part of UCloud and it will provide an extension of the infrastructure currently owned and operated by SDU. The solution must be able to scale flexibly to meet national demand, including support for environments exceeding 1,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs or equivalent. For a more detailed description of the services tendered, please refer to Annex 1 – Specification of requirements, Annex 1.1 – Overview of the solution and Annex 2 – Schedule of prices, as well as any corrections and answers to questions.

## Original notice

https://ted.europa.eu/da/notice/-/detail/697038-2025