What the buyer wrote
The UK is playing a leading role in the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) Upgrade at the LHC at CERN. This is funded by an STFC Project Grant. Daresbury Laboratory is a major production site for the staves of the ITS Upgrade. There are also five other stave construction sites worldwide in Italy, France, Korea, USA and Switzerland. The staves are constructed from CMOS sensors, carbon-fibre support structures, cooling, readout and power buses. The stave construction techniques must be identical across the construction sites. The assembly must be done on identical Coordinate Measuring Machines and using identical tooling which is imperative to maintain continuity of results. This reduces the ri…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Stave Tooling for ALICE ITS Upgrade
- How they are buying
- Advertised, then negotiatedThe buyer talked terms with bidders rather than taking fixed offers.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 1 Dec 2016
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2017
- Kind of work
- Construction, Environmental consultancy
Who the buyer named
Rebecca Fish was the named contact on this notice.