Contract

9001858 - Supply of Magnet Base Plates for Diamond-II

  • DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED

UK7: Contract details notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-031249

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

Published 10 June 2025, 1:17pm



Scope

Reference

9001858

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. 9001858 - Supply of Magnet Base Plates for Diamond-II

Supplier

Contract value

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

Above the relevant threshold

Date signed

19 May 2025

Contract dates

  • 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

Justification for not setting key performance indicators

Contract value is below £5 million.


Other information

Applicable trade agreements

  • Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Open procedure


Supplier

NCF Engineering Ltd (T/A Ferrositi)

  • Companies House: 7971121
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PGCD-6489-DNRT

Unit C2 Liddington Industrial Estate

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. 9001858 - 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