Published date: 6 September 2019

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Instruments for checking physical characteristics - 38400000

Location of contract

OX11 0QX

Value of contract

£250,000 to £300,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS PR19049

Published date

6 September 2019

Closing date

16 October 2019

Contract start date

25 November 2019

Contract end date

31 December 2020

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

**Final date and time for the submission of bids is 16/10/2019 at 11:00 DO NOT apply directly to the buyer. All tender information MUST be submitted through the CCS eSourcing Portal.**

This requirement is for the design, manufacture, delivery and the installation of 3T Horizontal Magnet for the use at UK Research and Innovation(UKRI) - Science & Technology Facilities Council(STFC) - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).

ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source is a world-leading centre for research at STFC - RAL near Oxford, in the UK. Its suite of neutron and muon instruments give unique insights into the properties of materials on the atomic scale.

Despite the great investment in building beamlines offering polarisation of the neutron beam, ISIS lacks sample environment optimised to exploit the full potential of the techniques. Until now, a set of room temperature electromagnets have been used in experiments requiring polarisation. These set of electromagnets offer a modest maximum field of 1.2 T perpendicular to the beam (even less if a cryostat needs to be added to the experiment) or 0.4 T parallel to the beam, and poor polarisation transport at low fields. This is a region of the utmost importance since most of the applications will work in absence or very small fields. Therefore for fully exploiting this appealing property of the neutron beams, ISIS needs to make an effort in expanding the available sample environment in order to provide larger fields and better polarisation transport at low fields.

Therefore a 3T horizontal magnet which transports the polarisation is required which will tackle both issues at once: it will multiply the maximum field by a factor or 2.5 (a factor 7.5 parallel to the beam), meaning that less experiments would have to be redesigned to accommodate the existing sample environment instead of the optimum scientific case; and the increase of the polarisation transport at low fields will allow the users to explore the regions closer to the working conditions for many prototype devices.

Detailed 3T Horizontal Magnet requirements are defined in the attached document,UK SBS PR19049 Specification.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Major Projects

Address

North Star House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Email

majorprojects@uksbs.co.uk