Published date: 21 February 2025

This notice was replaced on 28 August 2025

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

Awarded contract (published 28 August 2025)

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

  • Analysers - 38434000

Location of contract

OX11 0DE

Value of contract

£0.01

Procurement reference

DLSITT1058

Published date

21 February 2025

Closing date

24 March 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

14 April 2025

Contract end date

14 December 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 coordinated 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 this tender is to cover the supply of the Residual Gas Analysers (RGAs) and their control units for the Diamond-II Project as covered in the specification. RGAs and control units must be current standard catalogue items which the supplier has a history of supplying. Tender responses must be compliant with the specification. However, suppliers may also offer available alternatives to those outlined in the specification as options.

Diamond-II, in its initial phase, will require the following RGA heads and control units:

ITEM QUANTITY
Quadrupole heads 30 - 50

Control electronics 30 - 50

3 metre extender cables 30 - 50
for electronics.

A software package DLS-wide user license
(EPICS integration, or
ASCII based protocol
would be desirable).

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

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Didcot
OX11 0ED
England

Telephone

01235 567575

Email

procurement@diamond.ac.uk