Published date: 14 September 2022

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: 19 October 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Refrigerating and freezing equipment - 42513000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£125,000

Procurement reference

BIP721014463

Published date

14 September 2022

Closing date

19 October 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

7 November 2022

Contract end date

31 July 2023

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

RAL Space are designing the Cryogenic Test Rig (CTR) for the ARIEL payload module (PLM). It consists of a cryogenic shroud and a warm interface plate. Cooling is applied directly to the shroud using cryocoolers, attached via high purity aluminium thermal straps. The test rig requires up to 100 W of cooling at a cold head temperature of 20 K, which has been calculated based on extensive thermal modelling of the system. Margin on this heat lift would ideally be included to account for any modelling inaccuracies, with 50% assumed during the preliminary design phase. A single stage cooler would be preferred, and we expect that multiple coolers would be needed.

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About the buyer

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FL
UK

Telephone

+441235446100

Email

STFCprocurement@ukri.org