Published date: 21 July 2015

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: 27 August 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Industrial or laboratory furnaces, incinerators and ovens - 42300000

Location of contract

CV4 7AL

Value of contract

£200,000 to £250,000

Procurement reference

CJ-07-15-WMG-VIM-SS

Published date

21 July 2015

Closing date

27 August 2015

Contract start date

11 September 2015

Contract end date

11 September 2016

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University of Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group, has a requirement for a new vacuum induction melting furnace (VIM) for the purpose of fabrication of bespoke model alloys in the quantities relevant to a material science project. This has been deemed to be up to 10kg. The requirements of the machine is to produce "clean" steel with a range of compositions. In addition it is also required to have access to the molten material in order to take samples, and to monitor steel/slag interactions (sampling every 1-2 minutes).

Please refer to http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick for further information. You will be able to download the full tender documents from this site. Any queries in relation to this requirement should be directed to the University of Warwick via the correspondence functionality of our e-tendering system. Failure to do so may result in queries being excluded from the procedure.

This is an ABOVE EU threshold tender

All correspondence regarding this tender procedure should be made through the University of Warwick In-Tend system (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick) via the "Correspondence" functionality. Failure to do so may result in the correspondence being excluded from the tender procedure.

After expressing an interest in this project you will be able to download the full tender document set within 24 hours.

All bids must be received by midday 24th August, 2015

More information

Links

Additional text

Please refer to http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick for further information. You will be able to download the full tender documents from this site. Any queries in relation to this requirement should be directed to the University of Warwick via the correspondence functionality of our e-tendering system. Failure to do so may result in queries being excluded from the procedure.


Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick/aspx/

About the buyer

Contact name

Trevor Williams

Address

Main campus
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 2476150575

Email

t.j.williams@warwick.ac.uk