Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Diamond Light Source Ltd · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cannon Packing and Logistics SME
- Value
- £1,422,419
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Transport support & travel · Storage and warehousing services (CPV 63120000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 001912-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Dec 2025
- Published9 Jan 2026Published 22 days after the contract date
Description
Located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering and innovation. Diamond allows researchers from academia and industry to investigate the structure and behaviour of the world around us at the atomic and molecular level. To continue delivering the world changing science that Diamond enables, the facility is being upgraded to Diamond-II, a coordinated programme of development that combines a major machine upgrade with new instruments and complementary improvements to optics,detectors, sample environment and delivery capabilities, and computing, as well as integrated and correlative methods. This will be transformative in speed and spatial resolution and will offer users streamlined access to enhanced instruments for life and physical sciences. The logistics model devised that underpins this programme mandates a suitable offsite storage facility to be secured for a period of three years sta…
About the supplier
Cannon Packing and Logistics: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06490909).