Published date: 21 March 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 8 September 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Electronic detection apparatus - 31642000

  • Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) - 38000000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£75,000 to £95,000

Procurement reference

UKSBS PR17087 - ALPHA Counter Unit

Published date

21 March 2018

Closing date

8 September 2017

Contract start date

27 September 2017

Contract end date

1 December 2017

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

***Please NOTE: This tender will close for the receipt of bids on Friday 08 Sept 2017 at 14.00 BST.***

STFC is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation, whose goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people - and more broadly to the world.

The Particle Physics Department (PPD) based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory part of STFC are seeking an Alpha counter for the investigation of surface contaminants with extremely high sensitivity for future Dark Matter, Double Beta decay and other ultra-low background detection media.

The equipment is to be delivered, installed and commissioned in the STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory - the UK's 1.1km deep underground science facility operating in a working mine (Boulby Mine) in the North East of England.

Completion of delivery, installation and commissioning is required by the end of November 2017.

The equipment is to be installed into a 1000 grade clean room, clean room protocols must be adhered during installation and commissioning phases. Local experts will be in attendance to guide the installation engineers.

***DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE BUYER*** Note : Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation "to apply directly to the buyer" as this unfortunately a system generated error, that is outside of the Contracting Authority's control "

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

UKSBS PR17087 - ALPHA Counter Unit

  • Opportunity
  • Published 23 August 2017, last edited 23 August 2017

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Award information

Awarded date

5 October 2017

Contract start date

6 October 2017

Contract end date

1 December 2017

Total value of contract

£66,800

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

XIA LLC

Address

31057 Genstar Road
Hayward
California
94544
United States.

Reference

None

Value of contract

£66,800

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Peter Clarke

Address

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Science Innovation Campus
Harwell, Oxfordshire
OX11 0QX
England

Telephone

01235 446795

Email

peter.clarke@uksbs.co.uk

Website

www.uksbs.co.uk