For the Manufacture and Supply of Robot Systems for an Automated Inspection and Maintenance Test Unit
What the buyer wrote
Working as part of the EUROfusion consortium, UKAEA's (the Purchaser's) remote handling centre: RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments) is currently involved in a project to develop a concept design for the Remote Maintenance (RM) system for DEMO (Demonstration Fusion Power Plant). Given the large number of maintenance operations that will need to be carried out remotely and the many years between maintenance shutdowns, there is a strong motivation to automate many of the tasks to reduce both timescales and the need to maintain the skill base between shutdowns. It is therefore necessary to research the application of automated robotics to fusion relevant challenges. Som…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- For the Manufacture and Supply of Robot Systems for an Automated Inspection and Maintenance Test Unit
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 26 May 2019
- Work ends
- 26 Jul 2019
- Kind of work
- Architecture and design
Who the buyer named
Andy Kynaston was the named contact on this notice.