Published date: 31 October 2019

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


Closing: 30 October 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Scientific installations - 45214630

Location of contract

WA4 4AD

Value of contract

£117,584.16

Procurement reference

FM19222

Published date

31 October 2019

Closing date

30 October 2019

Contract start date

1 November 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

UKRI need to purchase a number of movable stages to construct "winding machines" in order to build Anode Plane Assemblies (APAs) for the DUNE experiment. These APAs are large steel frames with thousands of tiny wires wound around them.

The APAs are part of the DUNE experiment and the UK will be building half of them (150 out of 300). The other half will be built in the US, by identical winding machines.

UKRI went out to full Open tender in July 2019 (our ref FM19187) for this requirement but we did not receive any compliant bids. This recent test of the market had demonstrated that there was a limited supply base for this very niche product. UK SBS have concluded this Contract in line with article 32, 2 (a) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

General grounds
(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:-

(a) where no tenders, no suitable tenders, no requests to participate or no suitable requests to participate have been submitted in response to an open procedure or a restricted procedure, provided that the initial conditions of the contract are not substantially altered

More information

Additional text

UKRI went out to full Open tender in July 2019 (our ref FM19187) for this requirement but we did not receive any compliant bids. This recent test of the market had demonstrated that there was a limited supply base for this very niche product. UK SBS have concluded this Contract in line with article 32, 2 (a) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

General grounds
(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:-

(a) where no tenders, no suitable tenders, no requests to participate or no suitable requests to participate have been submitted in response to an open procedure or a restricted procedure, provided that the initial conditions of the contract are not substantially altered

Award information

Awarded date

24 October 2019

Contract start date

1 November 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Total value of contract

£117,584.16

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Hepco Motion

Address

Lower Moor Business Park
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 6TG

Reference

Companies House number: 10984388

Value of contract

£117,584.16

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Joe Wightman

Address

North Star House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793425052

Email

joseph.wightman@uksbs.co.uk