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Published 21 Feb 2025, 14:20 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

9001808 - Supply of Residual Gas Analysers for Diamond-II

Official notice

Authority: DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

GoodsOpen procedureSME suitable
Awarded value£334,800published contract · exc. VAT
Submissions closed 24 Mar 2025awarded 28 Apr 2025
Awarded to MKS Instruments UK Ltd

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 coordinated 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 scope of this tender is to cover the supply of the Residual Gas Analysers (RGAs) and their control units for the Diamond-II Project as covered in the specification. RGAs and control units must be current standard catalogue items which the supplier has a history of supplying. Tender responses must be compliant with the specification. However, suppliers may also offer available alternatives to those outlined in the specification as options.

Diamond-II, in its initial phase, will require the following RGA heads and control units:

ITEM QUANTITY

Quadrupole heads 30 - 50

Control electronics 30 - 50

3 metre extender cables 30 - 50

for electronics.

A software package DLS-wide user license

(EPICS integration, or

ASCII based protocol

would be desirable).

CPV: Analysers

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: 55%Price: 45%
Published sub-criteria (5)
  • Technical Quality: 25%
  • Experience & Capacity: 25%
  • Delivery: 5%
  • Commercial: 5%
  • price: 40%
Published award criteria (5)
  • Technical Quality: 25
  • Experience & Capacity: 25
  • Delivery: 5
  • Commercial: 5
  • Price: 40
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 45 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4.5 points. Quality carries 55 of 100: the paper moves it further than 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
21 Feb 2025, 14:20 GMT
Last source update
28 Aug 2025, 14:47 BST
Award evaluation window
24 Mar 2025 – …
Authority reference
9001808
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-052039
Classification (CPV)
Analysers
Delivery area
South East (UKJ14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e6c7 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified
Language: EN
Submission deadline
24 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
90 days from the deadline
Bids opened
24 Mar 2025, 13:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

24 Mar 2025 → 28 Aug 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    24 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT
  2. Bids opened
    24 Mar 2025, 13:00 GMT
  3. Notice published
    28 Aug 2025, 14:47 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Aug 2025
  1. Status changed to complete
    28 Aug 2025, 14:47 BST
  2. Buyer details updated
    28 Aug 2025, 14:47 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £334,8001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 22 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 28 Apr 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
MKS Instruments UK Ltd£334,800 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • 9001808 - Supply of Residual Gas Analysers for Diamond-II · MKS Instruments UK Ltd

    Signed
    28 Apr 2025
    Value
    £334,800
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2bids · 2 electronic2——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawScientific Research GB-COH: 04375679 Diamond House, Didcot, South East, OX110DEContact name, email, phone

Consortium members and other public bodies

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Diamond Light SourceReview body Didcot

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • MKS UK LimitedAwarded supplierGB-COH: 6391618 2 Cowley Way, Weston Road,, Crewe, North West, CW1 6AE

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.