Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult · Compliance with grant funding agreement
- Supplier
- Instron SME
- Value
- £205,840
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Industrial machinery · Industrial machinery (CPV 42000000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Jan 2025
- Published4 Feb 2025Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
ORE Catapult Materials Laboratory, located at the Charles Parsons Technology Centre at High Quay, Blyth has a requirement for purchasing a new dynamic Universal Test Machine ("UTM") to meet increasing demand from customers. There are current and future planned demands for testing subsea cable manufacturer's cable sheath material samples in fatigue life at increasing loads which are currently outside the capability and availability of the current test machines held in the laboratory such as the benchtop DMA 850. The purchase of a new larger capacity machine is also in-line with the longer term objectives of the materials laboratories to be able to test more of materials that are typically used in the construction of large scale wind turbine rotor blades.
About the supplier
Instron: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00559693).