Published date: 10 April 2019

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


Closing: 12 March 2019

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£60,000

Procurement reference

1201

Published date

10 April 2019

Closing date

12 March 2019

Contract start date

18 March 2019

Contract end date

17 March 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is opening a new National Healthcare Photonics Centre (NHPC) based at the NETPark, Sedgefield, County Durham, UK in January 2019. The centre will provide facilities and expertise to help companies of all sizes to develop their photonics-based technologies for healthcare and turn them into commercially viable products. The NHPC will comprise a wide range of technical laboratories, including a radiation laboratory that is compatible with the use of both microfocus x-ray sources and liquid radioactive isotopes for the investigation and characterisation of various different sample types. This capability will allow samples to be interrogated whether they are directly related to the assessment of biological targets, or if they are related to the effect of radioactivity on materials that may be used within radioactive systems as part of a diagnostic or health monitoring capability.
The construction and commissioning of the new National Healthcare Photonics Centre will be completed by early 2019. The very wide, and currently undefined, remit for the laboratory work requires that the procurement of equipment must be carried out to allow a flexible and capable suite of capabilities to be put together. This flexibility will allow the National Healthcare Photonics Centre to provide the expertise and capability to assist SMEs in the characterisation and development of materials and techniques to be used in conjunction with radioactive sources.
The strategy to provide this assessment capability requires the procurement of a number of components. The microfocus x-ray source and detector will be one part of the capability set-up, the other part will be the suite of motor stages that will allow 360° interrogation of a sample without any manual movement of the sample being required.
The suite of motor stages will provide the core mechanical capability that will underpin the vast majority of the radiation work carried out within the lab and so it is imperative that all of the motor stages, controllers, and peripherals are compatible and can be programmed and run from the same control software. The control software will also be used to control the source exposure and to collect the output images and data from the detector.
Please refer to the following URL for access to the tender pack following registration;
https://ne1procurementservices.com

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Motor Stage System

  • Opportunity
  • Published 25 February 2019

Links

Award information

Awarded date

21 March 2019

Contract start date

22 March 2019

Contract end date

22 March 2023

Total value of contract

£181,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

PI (Physik Instrumente) Ltd

Address

Trent House,
University Way,
Cranfield Technology Park,
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AN

Reference

Companies House number: 06488105

Value of contract

£181,000

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Ben Westwood

Address

The Wilton Centre
REDCAR
TS104RF
England

Telephone

01642 447279

Email

e-tendering@uk-cpi.com

Website

www.uk-cpi.com