What the buyer wrote
UKRI need to purchase a number of movable stages to construct "winding machines" in order to build Anode Plane Assemblies (APAs) for the DUNE experiment. These APAs are large steel frames with thousands of tiny wires wound around them. The APAs are part of the DUNE experiment and the UK will be building half of them (150 out of 300). The other half will be built in the US, by identical winding machines. UKRI went out to full Open tender in July 2019 (our ref FM19187) for this requirement but we did not receive any compliant bids. This recent test of the market had demonstrated that there was a limited supply base for this very niche product. UK SBS have concluded this Contract in lin…
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- What the buyer calls it
- FM19222 - APA Winding Machine stages
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 1 Nov 2019
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2020
- Kind of work
- New build construction
Who the buyer named
Rebecca Fish was the named contact on this notice.