Published date: 4 March 2022

Last edited date: 4 March 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: 21 March 2022, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Gas cooling systems - 31161200

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£100,000 to £500,000

Procurement reference

BIP670664308

Published date

4 March 2022

Closing date

21 March 2022

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

10 April 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

NOTE: This notice was updated on 04 March 2022 for the following reason: Contract start date amendment.(The UK's National Quantum Computing Centre aims at building quantum computers which will be made available to end users. One of the hardware platforms we are developing is based on trapped ions. In trapped ion quantum computing, these ions are trapped on a chip. This chip needs to be located inside a vacuum chamber to avoid the ions being knocked out of the trap by background gas.
The vacuum chamber also needs to provide cryogenic cooling to the ion chip to avoid the chip heating up the ion, as well as to improve the vacuum. It also needs to provide vacuum feedthroughs for various electrical connections that the ion trap chip requires.)

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The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

About the buyer

Contact name

Elizabeth Gage

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FL
UK

Telephone

07563420665

Email

Elizabeth.Gage@ukri.org