Published date: 19 February 2019

Last edited date: 19 February 2019

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: 8 February 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data-processing machines (hardware) - 30210000

  • Hardware consultancy services - 72100000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

BIP372776992

Published date

19 February 2019

Closing date

8 February 2019

Contract start date

8 March 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2019

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

NOTE: This notice was updated on 19 February 2019 for the following reason: The new closing date for this tender is 5th March 2019(The University of Derby has secured Local Growth Funding to establish a Rail Innovation Centre with three Technical Demonstrators aimed at encouraging innovation and collaboration between businesses and their local university.
The purpose of this tender is to procure the core capital equipment to establish the third demonstrator titled \"Future Rail Propulsion\". This demonstrator will provide a Hardware-in-the-loop test and development rig, which will be expandable in future to allow different power units to be integrated to create propulsion systems. The systems are expected to include:
•A reconfigurable rolling stock test rig with full system integration to allow the use of both real inputs and simulated data inputs to establish experimental cases.
•Full instrumentation and Hardware-in-the-loop monitoring of the test rig to allow data capture during tests.
•Traction delivery by electric motors, able to be powered by a range of technologies, to include versions and combinations of the following (for example and not exhaustive):
oBattery systems
oSupercapacitor systems
oHydrogen fuel cell systems
oDiesel generator systems
•An instrumented regenerative braking system to allow the evaluation of system performance under different power sources (as above) and simulated use situations.
•A systems integration suite to allow monitoring and control systems to be developed in hardware and software.
•A simulation environment to study the impact of electrification on the wider energy grid network.
•A separate, standalone and portable monitoring system for use on existing test rigs.)

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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

Alex Lawrence

Address

Kedleston Road
Derby
DE22 1GB
UK

Telephone

01332592401

Email

a.lawrence@derby.ac.uk