Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- UK Research & Innovation · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- ICE Oxford Ltd SME
- Value
- £203,990
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (CPV 38000000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 027598-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 May 2025
- Published27 May 2025Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
This procurement forms the basis for part of a research programme being undertaken at PPD and funded through a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, a prestigious funding opportunity designed to support exceptional researchers and innovators in the UK. Dedicated funds were awarded as part of this grant specifically for this procurement, since there is currently no such system within PPD for this research to take place.The system delivered through this procurement will be used for dedicated photosensor R&D at ultra-low temperatures (~20 mK) for the QUEST-DMC dark matter experiment, one of many experiments that STFC PPD is involved in. The system will be housed inside a larger, cryogenic laboratory (“cryolab”) currently being established within PPD. The cryolab will provide a dedicated cryogenic facility within PPD for liquid noble R&D in the context of low background rare-event searches, and is applicable to several different experiments that PPD is presently involved with. The cryolab is in…
About the supplier
ICE Oxford Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05224107).