Published date: 27 March 2017

This notice was replaced on 19 May 2017

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 19 May 2017)

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.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Industrial machinery - 42000000

  • Metal-working machine tools - 42630000

  • Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery - 42900000

    • Machinery for the heat treatment of materials - 42940000

    • Miscellaneous special-purpose machinery - 42990000

Location of contract

S60 5TZ

Value of contract

£110,000

Procurement reference

1625/325/ML/COM/17

Published date

27 March 2017

Closing date

19 April 2017

Contract start date

28 April 2017

Contract end date

31 July 2017

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

1625/325/ML/COM/17 In-Line Heating Equipment for High Speed, High Temperature Filament Winding & Advanced Fibre Placement

The University of Sheffield wished to invite tenders for an In- Line Heating System for High speed, High Temperature Filament Winding and Advanced Fibre placement, for supply to the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre's, new Composites Facility.

Scope of Requirement:

The AMRC with Boeing have both Filament Winding (FW) and Advanced Fibre Placement (AFP) capability for the manufacture of advanced composite components with both thermoset and thermoplastic matrix materials.

The AMRC require a heating system which can be mounted onto the existing filament winding machine head to allow the in-process melting & consolidation of thermoplastic composite materials at high temperature.

The system should allow the melting of thermoplastic materials in either prepreg or commingled formats, with a melting point up to 350oC and should be capable of running with material feed rates of up to 1m/s for lower temperature melt materials.


Tender Process and Documentation:

This is an open tender exercise. The ITT can be downloaded by registering and expressing your interest on the University`s e-tendering system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield

If you have any questions or comments in relation to this tender they must be submitted via the In-tend System, this can be accessed at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield

Completed tenders must be returned through the same e-tendering system.

Closing date for receipt of tenders: 19th of April 2017 at 12 noon (UK time).

More information

Links

Additional text

Documents may be downloaded from the University's electronic tendering portal - https//in-tendhost.co.uk/sheffield

Delivery Notes

Delivery to Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Catcliffe, Rotherham. South Yorkshire

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Mary Leverton

Address

Wallis Way
Catcliffe
Rotherham
S60 5TZ
United Kingdom

Telephone

0114 222 6694

Email

m.leverton@sheffield.ac.uk