Contract award · 2 Dec 2024

DLSITT1021 - Three 150kW, 500 MHz Circulators for the Diamond-II Project

Diamond Light Source Ltd awarded “Three 150kW, 500 MHz Circulators for the Diamond-II Project” to AFT Microwave GmbH for £249k on 2 Dec 2024.

Telecoms equipmentSouth East

Value £249k
WinnerAFT Microwave GmbH SME

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
AFT Microwave GmbH SME
Value
£249,345.75
Procedure
Open procedure (above threshold)
Sector
Telecoms equipment · Amplifiers (CPV 32343000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date2 Dec 2024
  2. Published3 Jan 2025Published 32 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 design, manufacture, deliver three identical 150 kW CW, 500 MHz circulators subject to the performance specification…

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