Published date: 6 April 2022

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 20 April 2022

Contract summary

Industry

  • Marine equipment - 34930000

  • Machinery for working plastics - 42994200

Location of contract

pl4 8aa

Procurement reference

EW/UoP/Polymer_Processing/22

Published date

6 April 2022

Closing date

20 April 2022

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University of Plymouth INdIGO project is seeking expressions of interest from potential suppliers for a polymer processing equipment which will finally be installed in the DigiFab (Digital Fabrication) laboratory in a newly-built New Engineering Design Facility (NEDF).

The system will provide teaching and research opportunities for processing waste plastics, particularly those recovered from the marine environment and the fishing industry, and collected waste from campus. This will allow lab-scale cleaning, shredding, granulating, extrusion to filament / pellets, injection moulding, sheet pressing and FDM / FGM 3D printing

Considerations will include cost, capacity, versatility, physical footprint, and circular economy procurement principles (long life and repairability, whole life cost, local procurement, refurbished / product as service models).

An approximate cost for this equipment should be included within your expression of interest to procurement@plymouth.ac.uk

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement Team

Address

Drake Circus
PLYMOUTH
PL48AA
England

Telephone

01752 582057

Email

procurement@plymouth.ac.uk