Published date: 27 January 2016

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.


Closing: 25 February 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Engineering support services - 71336000

  • Technical support services - 71356300

  • Analysis services - 71620000

    • Technical analysis or consultancy services - 71621000

    • Design support services - 79933000

Location of contract

SK11 9DL

Value of contract

£0 to £170,000

Procurement reference

2016/1126/SKA-ILS/KG/JH/PC

Published date

27 January 2016

Closing date

25 February 2016

Contract start date

24 March 2016

Contract end date

31 March 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Background information on The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities, with outstanding facilities and the widest range of courses. We are highly respected across the globe as a centre of teaching excellence and innovative research.
With 25 Nobel prize winners among our current and former staff and students, we have a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries, from splitting the atom to giving the world graphene.
We're committed to world-class research, an outstanding learning and student experience, and social responsibility in everything we do. And we're on course to achieve our goal of becoming one of the top 25 research universities in the world by 2020.
Further details on the University can be found at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/facts-figures/

Background information on Project

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
The SKA will be the most sensitive radio telescope ever built and will play a major role in answering key questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology (see www.skatelescope.org). It will be one of a small number of cornerstone observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum that will transform our view of the Universe. The University of Manchester is one of three major UK university contributors to the SKA, together with Cambridge and Oxford, and its Jodrell Bank Observatory is the location of the international headquarters of the SKA Organisation, the UK-based legal entity that directs the project.
The University of Manchester operates the e-MERLIN interferometer, which is an SKA Pathfinder instrument.

SKA Group, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy.
The Manchester SKA Group is headed by Professor Keith Grainge, leader of the International Signal and Data Transport (SADT) Consortium, and is composed of astronomers and engineers from the School of Physics and Astronomy (Jodrell Bank Observatory and Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics) and the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. SKA activity in Manchester encompasses the science case and a number of engineering developments including the hardware design, construction, and verification of the signal & data transport and synchronization & timing sub-systems, non-imaging processing for pulsars and transients, and aperture array receiver design. The University of Manchester has been selected to lead the international SADT Consortium on the signal & data transport and synchronization & timing.

The SKA SADT Consortium
Information on the consortium is available from:
http://www.skatelescope.org/skadesign/wp/sadt/

More information

Links

Additional text

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About the buyer

Contact name

Paul Carter

Address

Macclesfield
Macclesfield
Macclesfield
SK11 9DL
United Kingdom

Telephone

0161 275 2207

Email

paul.carter-2@manchester.ac.uk