Published date: 11 July 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: 24 July 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Parts for aircraft, spacecraft and helicopters - 34730000

  • Parts for aircraft - 34731000

  • Aircraft or spacecraft equipment, trainers, simulators and associated parts - 34740000

    • Industrial robots - 42997300

    • Construction work for aircraft-manoeuvring surfaces - 45235300

    • Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software package - 48323000

    • Repair, maintenance and associated services related to aircraft, railways, roads and marine equipment - 50200000

    • Repair, maintenance and associated services related to aircraft and other equipment - 50210000

    • Repair and maintenance services of aircraft - 50211000

    • Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software development services - 72212323

Location of contract

NG7 2RN

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

ITT1121

Published date

11 July 2019

Closing date

24 July 2019

Contract start date

10 September 2019

Contract end date

31 August 2020

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Centre for Aerospace Manufacturing (CAM) at the University Of Nottingham (UoN) works with partners from across the UK and European aerospace industry to deliver industrially focused research into aerospace assembly systems.
Advanced manufacturing is a key research priority area for Nottingham and the university has invested significantly in this research. The university made a strategic investment in automated assembly infrastructure through the Future Automated Aerospace Assembly Demonstrator (FA3D) project, which was commissioned in 2016. Based on the success of this project, funding has been secured from the UK Government's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) for development of the second phase of this demonstrator.
The Future Automated Aircraft Assembly Demonstrator Phase 2 (FA3D2) will deliver a national experimental testbed and technology demonstrator in digital and informatics enabled aerospace manufacturing technology. It provides an opportunity for UK based aerospace manufacturing businesses to test, demonstrate and accelerate the implementation of new breakthrough technologies, thus allowing them to compete on productivity, quality and cost with rival offshore businesses.
The demonstrator aims to reduce the non-recurring costs of a product line by implementing a flexible assembly approach. A key feature of the FA3D2 platform will be its flexibility to be reconfigured for different products and assembly processes. This applies to both the physical reconfiguration of equipment and tooling, and also the digital integration architecture. The platform shall be designed to be extensible such that tooling, end effectors, robots etc. may be added in future with minimal disruption to the existing system i.e. a plug and play approach.
FA3D2 aims to address the following key technology themes:
Smart manufacturing
Reconfigurable automation
Precision assembly
Human centred assembly
Adaptive fixturing and tooling
Advanced assembly processes
Smart logistics

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Introduction
The Centre for Aerospace Manufacturing (CAM) at the University Of Nottingham (UoN) works closely with partners from across the UK and European aerospace industry to deliver industrially focused research into future aerospace assembly systems. We are an international centre of excellence in assembly systems and smart factory technologies with particular expertise in informatics enabled manufacturing.
CAM has an impressive range of state of the art equipment for the development and demonstration of disruptive manufacturing technologies. It has recently been awarded ?3.8 million from the UK Government through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (in collaboration with the Aerospace Technology Institute) for the Future Automated Aerospace Assembly Demonstrator Phase 2 (FA3D2) platform, which will become the national experimental testbed and technology demonstrator in digital and informatics enabled aerospace manufacturing technologies.
Key Objectives
The Future Automated Aircraft Assembly Demonstrator Phase 2 (FA3D2) will provide an opportunity for UK based aerospace manufacturing businesses to test, demonstrate and accelerate the implementation of new breakthrough technologies, thus allowing them to compete on productivity, quality and cost with rival offshore businesses.
The FA3D2 platform will provide open access to a variety of UK companies with a specific focus on support for manufacturing SMEs. It will also support community engagement to attract future engineering graduates to careers in the aerospace industry.
The objectives of the project are:
o Integrate a variety of diverse processes and disruptive technologies
o Deliver a step change in human centred assembly automation
o Develop smart assembly cell architecture and infrastructure to accommodate seamless product variation, increase capacity and reduce costs
o Demonstrate platform utilising industrial scenarios, to evaluate and validate
Procurement of the system has been split into 2 stages and UoN is releasing stage 1. This includes smart manufacturing (digital infrastructure), reconfigurable automation and precision assembly (large volume metrology). There are a number of individual work packages that can be tendered for individually or combined.


Delivery Notes

Supplier Open Day
The University of Nottingham is holding an open day for organisations who may be interested in tendering for stage 1 work packages. This shall be held on the 23rd July 2019 at the University of Nottingham, from 9am to 12:30 to register and attend the open day, please login to the Nottingham Intend Procurement and register your interest by sending a message.



Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Syed Haujee

Address

Lenton Lane
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG7 2RN
United Kingdom

Telephone

+4401157486826

Email

SYED.HAUJEE@nottingham.ac.uk