Replacement control system for Hauzer TechCoating PVD Unit

Contract summary

Industry

• Installation services of laboratory equipment - 51430000

Location of contract

S1 1WB

Value of contract

£200,000

Procurement reference

CW204-LW

Published date

16 March 2022

Closing date

3 January 2022

Closing time

9am

Contract start date

1 March 2022

Contract end date

28 February 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Other: COMPETITION WAIVER

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

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Description

There is no other option to keep the coating unit running and bring it up to the most recent safety standards. Replacing the control system for this unit would be a fraction of the cost of an entire new unit. The cost of a new unit would be over £1.2M and would not include the bespoke modifications that the current system has. Major components of the unit have already been replaced e.g. pumping units at a cost of £139k, which were replaced in 2017.

Only the original equipment manufacturer is capable of replacing the control system for the this highly complex industrial machine. SHU tendered for replacement pumps for the machine in 2016/17 (1617-05-ACES-JM) and only Hauzer returned a submission. It would have been significantly easier to a third party to reverse-engineer the pump requirements than it would for a company to reverse engineer the control system. An analogy would be that replacing the pumps is like a lung transplant, replacing the control system is like a brain transplant. The first is very difficult, the second impossible.

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Award information

Awarded date

28 January 2022

Contract start date

1 March 2022

Contract end date

28 February 2023

Total value of contract

£200,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement Team

Address

City Campus,Howard Street
SHEFFIELD
S11WB
England

Telephone

01142253431

Email

strategicprocurement@shu.ac.uk