Published date: 23 June 2022

Last edited date: 24 June 2022

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: 28 July 2022, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Optical instruments - 38600000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£2,500,000

Procurement reference

BIP695023403

Published date

23 June 2022

Closing date

28 July 2022

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

28 September 2022

Contract end date

26 September 2031

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

Text to be corrected in the original notice:
Place of text to be modified: Time limit for receipt of tender or requests to participate
Instead of: 28 July 2022
Time: 11:00
Read New: 30 August 2022
Time: 11:00
Other additional information: 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.
The LISA concept for directly detecting the oscillating strain in spacetime caused by gravitational waves shares the scheme used in all laser interferometer-based gravitational wave detectors: The passage of the wave is detected by measuring the time-varying changes of optical pathlength between test masses isolated from all forces other than gravitational waves.

The project draws on experience gleaned from the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission, a pioneering mission to test the LISA concept and demonstrate key concepts and technologies. A key technology to the LISA mission is performing interferometry with hydroxide catalysis bonded optics and this was demonstrated on LPF.

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About the buyer

Address

https://www.ukri.org/
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FL
UK

Telephone

+447563420665

Email

Elizabeth.Gage@ukri.org