Published date: 16 July 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 24 April 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) - 38000000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£400,000 to £475,000

Procurement reference

UKSBS PR19002 CAN

Published date

16 July 2019

Closing date

24 April 2019

Contract start date

3 June 2019

Contract end date

13 December 2019

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

*Please NOTE: This tender will close for the receipt of bids on Wednesday 24th April 2019 at 11.00 BST.*
The National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF) is a new national facility for the environmental testing of complete satellites (up to 7 tonnes mass). The NSTF will be situated at UK Research & Innovation's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire. The Facility will comprise numerous environmental test facilities including for vibration, pyro-shock and acoustic testing.
This procurement is for a dynamic test data acquisition system for the NSTF. The system will be the primary method of acquiring data for all satellite and sub-assembly vibration, acoustic and shock tests in the NSTF.
***DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE BUYER*** Note : Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation "to apply directly to the buyer" as this is unfortunately a system generated error that is outside of the Contracting Authority's control.

To express your interest in this opportunity email expressionofInterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk. To register on our e-sourcing portal click on https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk and follow the link "Supplier eSourcing registration"
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More information

Previous notice about this procurement

UKRI NSTF Data Acquisition System for STFC

  • Opportunity
  • Published 20 March 2019, last edited 20 March 2019

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

1 July 2019

Contract start date

2 July 2019

Contract end date

13 December 2019

Total value of contract

£407,564

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Prosig Ltd

Address

Link House
44A High Street
Fareham PO16 7BQ

Reference

Companies House number: 09099121

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Jonathan Smith

Address

North Star House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01235 446394

Email

majorprojects@uksbs.co.uk