Published date: 12 April 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 13 May 2022, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Coating materials - 44113330

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

BIP683117519

Published date

12 April 2022

Closing date

13 May 2022

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

31 May 2022

Contract end date

30 November 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) is a laboratory within the Science & Technology Facilities Council which is part of UK Research & Innovation. The UK ATC has responsibility within the METIS project to design, build, test and deliver the LMS to our project partners NOVA in The Netherlands. Within the LMS there is, relevant to this document, a Zinc Selenide prism that is used to "pre-disperse" the science beam in a low resolution spectrometer to select a small range of wavelengths to be transmitted to the echelle grating in the main spectrometer optics. The work to produce the prism will be carried out in two phases. The first is to develop and demonstrate the anti-reflection coating. The second is to manufacture the prism and apply the developed anti-reflection coating.

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The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

About the buyer

Contact name

Sarah Grant

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FL
UK

Telephone

07394401259

Email

sarah.grant@ukri.org