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
- XDS Oxford Limited SME
- Value
- £400,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Mirrors (CPV 38622000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 017311-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Mar 2025
- Published28 Apr 2025Published 35 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 co-ordinated 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 scope of the contract is for the design, supply of material, manufacture, assembly, test and delivery of two Mirror Systems for the I17 Beamlin…
About the supplier
XDS Oxford Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04138193).