Published date: 29 October 2020

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


Closing: 8 September 2020, 2pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

TW11 0LW

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_248646/898973

Published date

29 October 2020

Closing date

8 September 2020

Closing time

2pm

Contract start date

2 October 2020

Contract end date

1 October 2021

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's [NPL] engineering department requires a new CNC Turning Centre to replace an existing machine and to complement the existing range of machine tools.

The turning centre must interface with and be fully compatible with existing CAM application software tools, FeatureCAM and Autodesk Fusion. The control must also provide effective state of the art interactive conversational on machine programming.

The nature of manufacturing at NPL requires that machine tools are effective for production of one-off and low number batches of components with a wide variety of size, geometry and materials, often with demanding tolerance specifications.

Parts are made in a wide variety of material specifications and include a range of metals and non-metallic materials. Metal specifications include aluminium alloys, stainless steels, titanium, carbon steels, coppers, brass, nickel based super alloys and other special metal alloys.

The range of plastic materials to be machined include various grades of nylon, Polyaryletheretherketone (PEEK™), PTFE, acetal, acrylic, polycarbonate and a variety of other specialist plastics and plastic composites.

Award information

Awarded date

22 September 2020

Contract start date

2 October 2020

Contract end date

1 October 2021

Total value of contract

£147,330

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Yamazaki Mazak UK Limited

Address

Badgeworth Drive, Worcester, WR4 9NF

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Hampton Road
Teddington
TW11 0LW
England

Email

charley.choules@npl.co.uk