Published date: 17 January 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: 31 January 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data-processing machines (hardware) - 30210000

  • Hardware - 44316400

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

BIP370928690

Published date

17 January 2019

Closing date

31 January 2019

Contract start date

7 February 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

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.

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Additional text

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

01332594295

Email

a.lawrence@derby.ac.uk