Award

Supply of Magnet Base Plates for Diamond-II

  • DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED

UK6: Contract award notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-019193

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04ece8 (view related notices)

Published 6 May 2025, 4:21pm



Scope

Reference

DLSITT1060

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 756 magnet base plates to DLS designs. There are 10 different designs of the base plates. The base plates will be assembled to various

electromagnets and then onto 52 girder assemblies by DLS.


Contract 1. Supply of Magnet Base Plates for Diamond-II

Supplier

Contract value

  • £127,966 excluding VAT
  • £153,559.20 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Award decision date

6 May 2025

Date assessment summaries were sent to tenderers

6 May 2025

Standstill period

  • End: 15 May 2025
  • 8 working days

Earliest date the contract will be signed

19 May 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 19 May 2025 to 13 May 2026
  • 11 months, 26 days

Main procurement category

Goods

CPV classifications

  • 44400000 - Miscellaneous fabricated products and related items

Contract locations

  • UKJ14 - Oxfordshire

Information about tenders

  • 13 tenders received
  • 13 tenders assessed in the final stage:
    • 12 submitted by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
    • 13 submitted by voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
  • 1 supplier awarded contracts
  • 12 suppliers unsuccessful (details included for contracts over £5 million)

Procedure

Procedure type

Open procedure


Supplier

Ferrositi

  • Companies House: 7971121

Unit C2, Liddington Industrial Estate

Leckhampton, Cheltenham

GL53 0DL

United Kingdom

Region: UKK13 - Gloucestershire

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Supported employment provider: No

Public service mutual: No

Contract 1. Supply of Magnet Base Plates for Diamond-II


Contracting authority

DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED

  • Companies House: 04375679
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PNGG-3778-PWBM

Diamond House

Didcot

OX11 0DE

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ14 - Oxfordshire

Organisation type: Public authority - central government