Published date: 31 January 2025
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Awarded contract (published 25 April 2025)
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Contract summary
Industry
Mirrors - 38622000
Location of contract
OX11 0DE
Value of contract
£0.01
Procurement reference
DLSITT1047
Published date
31 January 2025
Closing date
3 March 2025
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
17 March 2025
Contract end date
17 July 2026
Contract type
Supply contract
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?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering and innovation. Diamond allows researchers from academia and industry to investigate the structure and behaviour of the world around us at the atomic and molecular level.
To continue delivering the world-changing science that Diamond enables, the facility is being upgraded to Diamond-II, a co-ordinated programme of development that combines a major machine upgrade with new instruments and complementary improvements to optics,detectors, sample environment and delivery capabilities, and computing, as well as integrated and correlative methods. This will be transformative in speed and spatial resolution and will offer users streamlined access to enhanced instruments for life and physical sciences.
The scope of the contract is for the design, supply of material, manufacture, assembly, test and delivery of two mirror position adjustment systems for the I17 Beamline.
The minimum scope of the contract is the design, manufacture, test, and delivery of:
• Mirror System M4 tangential ellipse (with bender) focussing mechanics & optic.
• Mirror System M6 tangential ellipse (with bender) focussing mechanics & optic.
Both Mirror Systems shall include:
• Mirror Optics
• Mechanical Bender for bending
• Cooling arrangements as described in the specification
• Vacuum system
• Support system
• Interface to beamline services
To apply visit our website which requires suppliers to complete a one-off simple registration form, which will generate a unique password for your account. You are then able to login to register your interest against the Tender and download the tender documents.
Link to the site: https://tenders.diamond.ac.uk/Home.aspx.
About the buyer
Contact name
Debbie Pryor
Address
Diamond Light Source, Diamond House
Harwell Science & Innovation Campus
Didcot, Oxfordshire
OX11 0DE
England
Telephone
01235 567575
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