Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- National Physical Laboratory · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Keysight Technologies UK Ltd
- Value
- £291,269.25
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (CPV 38000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 019465-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Jun 2024
- Published25 Jun 2024Published the same day
Description
The unit must have all performance characteristics as detailed below: 4-port Vector Network Analyser with the following specifications: • Lower frequency limit 10 MHz (maximum) • Upper frequency limit 67 GHz (minimum) • 4 ports • 1.85 mm coaxial test port interface • Hardware realised noise measurements up to 50 GHz • GPIB interface • CE or UKCA marked with declaration of conformity • 220 V operating mains voltage Performance specifications Typical corrected system performance at 60 GHz as follows: • Noise floor for 10 Hz IF Bandwidth across frequency range 100MHz to 67GHz: ≤-100 dBm, Direct Rx Access ≤-100 dBm across the whole band. • System dynamic range ≥107 dB from 50MHz to 67GHz. Corrected Numbers, after a calibration. • Directivity at 50-67GHz: ≥ 34 dB • Source match at 50-67GHz: ≥ 40 dB • Load match at 50-67GHz: ≥ 33 dB • Reflection tracking (Mag) at 50-67GHz: ≤ ±0.031 dB • Transmission tracking (Mag) at 60-67GHz: ≤ ±0.15 dB • Three harmonically clean DDS RF sources, with harmo…
About the supplier
Keysight Technologies UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03809903).