Published date: 30 June 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.


Closing: 27 July 2017

Contract summary

Industry

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

  • Special-purpose machine tools - 42611000

  • Metal-working machine tools - 42630000

    • Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery - 42900000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£500,000

Procurement reference

1703/DM

Published date

30 June 2017

Closing date

27 July 2017

Contract start date

26 October 2017

Contract end date

27 October 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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Sir Henry Royce Centre of Materials Innovation are looking to procure a Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing System for the manufacture of components from metallic materials and manufacturing research purposes. The machine we seek should be based on a binder jetting technology (or equivalent) and should generate components that need subsequent processing by debinding and sintering. The system will be housed in state of the art facilities in close proximity to the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre.

More information

Links

Additional text

All tender documents, requests for clarification & tender returns, must be conducted via the In-tend site referred to above.

About the buyer

Contact name

David Middle

Address

The Arts Tower, Floor 4
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
England

Email

d.middle@sheffield.ac.uk