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Published 5 Mar 2024, 10:54 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

9000711 - Supply of Booster & Quadrupole Power Converters

Official notice

Authority: DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED (Central government)

GoodsOpen procedureSME suitable
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Submissions closed 8 Apr 2024awarded 23 Aug 2024
Awarded to Energy Technology S.R.L. (OCEM)

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering and innovation. Diamond allows researchers from academia and industry to investigate the structure and behaviour of the world around us at the atomic and molecular level.

To continue delivering the world-changing science that Diamond enables, the facility is being upgraded to Diamond-II, a co-ordinated programme of development that combines a major

machine upgrade with new instruments and complementary improvements to optics, detectors, sample environment and delivery capabilities, and computing, as well as integrated and correlative methods. This will be transformative in speed and spatial resolution and will offer users streamlined access to enhanced instruments for life and physical sciences.

The subject of this call for tender are the power converters for the Booster BF and quadrupole magnets as indicated below.

BF

Number of Magnets: 36

Connection Arrangement: Series

Number of Power Converters: 1

Quadrupole

Number of Magnets: 4 per converter

Connection Arrangement: Series

Number of Power Converters: 5

CPV: Power converters

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: South East
Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published sub-criteria (5)
  • Technical Solution & Quality: 50%
  • Experience of modifying standard items to meeet customer requirements: 5%
  • Delivery: 5%
  • Commercial: 5%
  • price: 35%
Published award criteria (5)
  • Technical Solution & Quality: 50
  • Experience of modifying standard items to meeet customer requirements: 5
  • Commercial: 5
  • Delivery: 5
  • Price: 35
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
5 Mar 2024, 10:54 GMT
Last source update
5 Sept 2024, 14:49 BST
Award evaluation window
8 Apr 2024 – …
Authority reference
9000711
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-028454
Classification (CPV)
Power converters
Delivery area
South East (UKJ14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044579 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified
Language: EN
Submission deadline
8 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
90 days from the deadline
Bids opened
8 Apr 2024, 13:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

8 Apr 2024 → 5 Sept 2024 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    8 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    8 Apr 2024, 13:00 BST
  3. Notice published
    5 Sept 2024, 14:49 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    5 Sept 2024, 14:49 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Bids received 44 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 23 Aug 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Energy Technology S.R.L. (OCEM)SMEDiamond-II Booster BF and Quadrupole Power Converters€398,740 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
4bids · 4 electronic4——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Diamond Light Source Ltd

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawScientific Research GB-COH: 4375679 Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, South East, OX11 0DEContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Diamond Light SourceReview body Didcot

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.