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title: "9001646 - Supply of 1st Collimating Mirror for Beamline K18"
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# 9001646 - Supply of 1st Collimating Mirror for Beamline K18

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/9001646-supply-of-1st-collimating-mirror-for-beamline-k18-ocds-h6vhtk-04c633). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED: "9001646 - Supply of 1st Collimating Mirror for Beamline K18". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 22 Jan 2025, 12:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/diamond-light-source-limited-coh-04375679)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 22 January 2025 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Mirrors
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ14
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £300,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04c633`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/9001646-supply-of-1st-collimating-mirror-for-beamline-k18-ocds-h6vhtk-04c633#tl-md)

## Description
Located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering, and innovation. It is the largest science facility to be
built in the UK for 40 years and produces ultra-violet, infra-red and X-ray beams of exceptional brightness. 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 correlative methods. This will be transformative in speed and spatial resolution and will offer users streamlined access to enhanced instruments for life and physical science.
The scope of the contract is for the design, supply of material, manufacture, assembly, test, delivery, installation and commissioning of a collimating mirror system (M1) for the K18
beamline.
The minimum scope of the contract is the design, manufacture, test, and delivery of:
• M1 upward reflecting, vertical collimating, white beam X-ray mirror & mechanics.
• Motorized mechanical bender to adjust the curvature of M1's reflecting surface.
• Motorized gravitational sag compensator.
• Cooling arrangements as described in the specification.
• Vacuum vessel and associated controls.
• Support frame.
• Interface to beamline services.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Supply of 1st Collimating Mirror for Beamlines K18 for DLS (active)
  - Award id: `016855-2025-9001646-1`
  - Supplier(s): **XDS OXFORD LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:04138193`
  - Value: £300,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Supply of 1st Collimating Mirror for Beamlines K18 for DLS (active)
  - Signed Value: £300,000
  - Signed Date: 24/03/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F016855-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-04-24T15:11:07.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T08:55:45.243Z
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