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
- Kurt J Lesker Company Limited SME
- Value
- £184,867.83
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Industrial machinery · Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery (CPV 42900000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 017331-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Mar 2024
- Published28 Apr 2025Published 407 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 scope of the contract is to manufacture, supply and deliver a suite of Front End module zeros. 23 in total of 3 different designs. The term 'Fro…
About the supplier
Kurt J Lesker Company Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02426614).