Official UK procurement notice
255,000 · UK public procurement notice
Authority: National Physical Laboratory
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRoundness instrument capable of preforming multi-step error separation for the measurement of high accuracy spheres and hemispheres along with routine measurement of cylindrical components.
CPV: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Supply of an instrument to replace the existing Talyrond 73UHPR (developed in a…
Supply of an instrument to replace the existing Talyrond 73UHPR (developed in a collaboration between NPL and Taylor Hobson) and Talyrond 295. The replacement instrument will be part of a national infrastructure to provide state of the art roundness measurements to industry via NPL’s measurement services.
- Must be able to automatically measure spheres and hemispheres using multi-step error separation reporting both the component and spindle error
- It must be possible to turn off any stored error map for the spindle.
- Must have a reproducible spindle error at the order of nm level
- Must have nm level resolution
- Must enable export of raw data in ASCII format
- Must run existing Ultra programs
- The work will involve decommissioning the existing Talyrond 295 and replacing with a Talyrond 595
- Physical size of instrument is required to be similar to the existing Talyrond 295
- Support should be provided in the UK for regular service and for repairs.
All of above must meet all NPL, UK and EU regulatory and health & safety requirements at all times.
Taylor Hobson can provide a solution that meets all these requirements.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Aug 2021, 22:45 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Aug 2021, 22:45 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-019393- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02d330Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
NPL is unaware of any other supplier worldwide that can provide the automatic error separation that this instrument is able to perform and is necessary to replace the capability of the Talyrond 73 UHPR. The instrument is only available direct from the manufacturer so there are no other UK distributors. The instrument is state of the art and will provide a seamless replacement of existing earlier models of the same equipment.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Hobson LimitedSMESubcontracting: declared | £255,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 019393-2021-1 · Taylor Hobson LimitedSME
- Signed
- 10 Aug 2021
- Value
- £255,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NPL Management LtdReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Taylor Hobson LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.