Published date: 9 February 2018

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: 23 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Industrial machinery - 42000000

Location of contract

NG7 2RN

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

PROC HF ITT/935

Published date

9 February 2018

Closing date

23 February 2018

Contract start date

13 March 2018

Contract end date

31 May 2018

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.

This is an accelerated procedure.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Bespoke multi print head system required to be installed in our clean room, for research purposes, to process pharma related non-standard materials. The system must be capable of satisfactorily completing the following customer site acceptance tests:-

Powder bed feeding and recoating test:
Standard selective laser sintering nylon powder will be used for this test and added into the powder feeding chamber. The machine need to be able to automatically feed and spread powder onto the building stage uniformly and repeatedly. The layer thickness for each layer of powder is preferably reach 150µm or below.

Multi-printhead printing test:
Two different standard coloured inks will be used. The machine will need to be able to uniformly and repeatedly print the two different inks onto the powder bed and the dimension accuracy of the printed pattern is preferable to reach 100 µm or below.

Multi-printhead and multi-layer printing test:
With the selected powder and standard coloured inks in the previous two tests, the machine shall be able to read the designed patterns from the target folder and selectively print the different inks onto the designed location. A multi-layer printing that contains up to 100 cycles of printing and powder recoating will be carried out to test the machine's printing stability.

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Helen Forsythe

Address

Lenton Lane
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG7 2RN
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 (0)115 951 5675

Email

helen.forsythe@nottingham.ac.uk