Published date: 23 September 2022

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


Closing: 16 September 2022, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Probes - 33141641

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£399,905.60

Procurement reference

BIP722683978

Published date

23 September 2022

Closing date

16 September 2022

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

23 September 2022

Contract end date

13 February 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The ATLAS UK ITk community presently uses a semi-automatic probe station, located at RAL, to test wafers of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) used in production of the ITk Strip detector. Approximately 250 wafers remain to be tested over the course of the next year. The maximum throughput of this system is approximately two wafers per day, and this requires working times to be staggered such that one wafer may be loaded in the morning, and one in the early evening. Just as the Strip work starts to wind down, deliveries of Pixel wafers will begin, potentially another two years of work.

We wish to reduce the effort burden associated with this process by moving to a fully automatic system, capable of running unattended wafer tests for a batch of up to 50 wafers. As the system will now be able to process wafers 24/7, throughput will be increased by 80%.

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Award information

Awarded date

16 September 2022

Contract start date

23 September 2022

Contract end date

13 February 2023

Total value of contract

£399,905.60

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Inseto (UK) Ltd

Address

Focus 303 Business Centre
Andover
SP10 5NY

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

About the buyer

Address

https://www.ukri.org/
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FL
UK

Telephone

+441793867000

Email

Elizabeth.Gage@ukri.org