Contract

UKRI-5330 Balanced Optical Cross Correlator for HiLUX

  • UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

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

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-069204

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05d5d3

Published 29 October 2025, 8:21am



Scope

Reference

UKRI-5330

Description

STFC require a device for measuring timing between two 65MHz lasers with < 15 fs resolution. This should provide a sensitive analogue output with > 100kHz able to be incorporated with an oscillator cavity length feedback system for stabilising timing. To achieve such timing accuracy, the device must measure optical correlations between two oscillator outputs. The device needs to be robust against environment and amplitude fluctuations.


Contract 1. UKRI-5330 Balanced Optical Cross Correlator for HiLUX

Supplier

Contract value

  • 35900.00 EUR excluding VAT
  • 43080.00 EUR including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Date signed

28 October 2025

Contract dates

  • 29 October 2025 to 26 March 2026
  • 4 months, 29 days

Main procurement category

Goods

CPV classifications

  • 38600000 - Optical instruments

Contract locations

  • UKJ14 - Oxfordshire

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - without competition


Supplier

Cycle GmbH

Luruper Hauptstrasse 1

Hamburg

22547

Germany

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1. UKRI-5330 Balanced Optical Cross Correlator for HiLUX


Contracting authority

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDQJ-7126-JDHG

Polaris House

Swindon, Wiltshire

SN2 1FL

United Kingdom

Contact name: STFC Procurement

Telephone: 01793442000

Email: stfcprocurement@ukri.org

Website: https://www.ukri.org/

Region: UKK14 - Swindon

Organisation type: Public authority - central government