Published date: 25 September 2023

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


Closing: 10 July 2023, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Sensors - 35125100

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£64,300

Procurement reference

BIP795100541

Published date

25 September 2023

Closing date

10 July 2023

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

11 July 2023

Contract end date

30 September 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Not specified

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

STFC Daresbury Laboratory in collaboration with the University of York was successful in winning a project to build the silicon tracker detector for the experiment called Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams (R3B). R3B is located at the international facility called Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe GmbH (FAIR GmbH)), Darmstadt (DE).
The project is planning to re-use the ALICIA-4 machine to build the silicon tracker detector for the R3B experiment.
ALICIA-4 was originally procured by the project called ALICE Inner Tracking System for CERN (2015 - 2018). This pre-cursor project was delivered as a collaboration between Daresbury Laboratory and the University of Liverpool.
ALICIA-4 is a custom-made, automated, pick-and-place machine capable of aligning detectors (i.e. electronic microchips) to an accuracy as high as 5um.
The total value of the machine at its procurement time (~2016) was ~300k EUR inc. VAT.
The deployment of the ALICIA-4 machine for the R3B detector project allowed the UK to develop a unique selling point within the R3B collaboration.
This strategic positioning benefitted from the automation and high precision capability guaranteed by the ALICIA-4 machine.
The ALICIA-4 machine needs some functional adaptation work in order to be compatible with the R3B detector layout, and to be compatible with the latest version of the Windows operative system.

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Award information

Awarded date

10 July 2023

Contract start date

11 July 2023

Contract end date

30 September 2023

Total value of contract

£64,300

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

IBS Precision Engineering BV

Address

Industrieterrein Esp 2151 5633 AD
Eindhoven
Esp 201

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Solomon Nwosu

Address

Polaris House
Swindon
SN2 1FL
UK

Telephone

+447394204018

Email

solomon.nwosu@ukri.org