Published date: 3 October 2018

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


Closing: 29 August 2018

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

TW11 0LW

Value of contract

£0 to £60,000

Procurement reference

tender_176449/716958

Published date

3 October 2018

Closing date

29 August 2018

Contract start date

31 August 2018

Contract end date

30 August 2019

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The National Physical Laboratory [NPL] requirement is for a system for measuring the temperature inside battery casings during charging and discharging. The major challenges in this application are the difficulty of access to the battery pack and the lack of space between the modules within the battery pack.

After considering numerous possibilities, NPL has decided that the application requirements can be met with a Distributed Fibre Thermometer (DFT) using Frequency Domain Optical Reflectometry (FDOR)

NPL anticipates that after use on the Battery Project, the apparatus will find applications in a wide range of engineering challenges. The fibre sensors used in this technique can also be used to measure strain and NPL anticipates that the ability to make combined temperature and strain measurements may be relevant to future applications. We hope that the software supplied with the system will be sufficiently flexible to allow for many as yet unanticipated applications.

Award information

Awarded date

1 October 2018

Contract start date

1 October 2018

Contract end date

31 October 2018

Total value of contract

£65,305.24

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Luna Innovations Inc

Address

301 1st Street SW Suite 200 Roanoke VA 24011 USA

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Hampton Road
Teddington
TW11 0LW
England

Email

James.webb@npl.co.uk