Proposal to negotiate, without competitive tendering, a contract for software licenses for mathematical scientific libraries

This document concerns the purchase of software licenses for mathematical scientific libraries required by the experiments at CERN, in particular at LHC. The Finance Committee is invited to agree to the negotiation, without competitive tendering, of a contract with NAG (GB) for software licenses for mathematical scientific libraries including maintenance fees for an estimated total amount not exceeding 400 000 pounds sterling (980 000 Swiss francs at the current exchange rate) for a period of five years. The firm has indicated the following distribution by country of the contract value covered by this adjudication proposal: GB - 100%.