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Published 28 Sept 2026, 09:12 BST

Official UK procurement notice

DLSITT1097 - Main Septum Magnets for Diamond-II

Official notice

Authority: DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED (Central government)

GoodsOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Published estimate£400,000≈ £282k / year · £480,000 inc. VAT
Submissions closed 28 Oct 2026
Contract term 1 yr 5 moends 10 Apr 2028 · starts 16 Nov 2026
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

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

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Located on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering and innovation. DLS 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 scope of this contract is to carry out the detailed design, manufacture, quality control, testing and delivery of two out-of-vacuum main DC/PM septum magnets, with integrated vacuum vessels, on support stands, as well as some spares.

The two septum magnets are physically identical but will be installed with input and output ends inverted for booster extraction bend to the left, and storage ring injection bend to the right. This means that the magnet fields are also inverted, and also that the support frame should be rotationally symmetric so that the services connections are on the outside (bending channel side of the support frame) in each case.

See specification for further details.

CPV: Magnets

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The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 1 yr 5 moSMEPublished value£400,000
Contract period: 16 Nov 2026 – 10 Apr 2028 (1 yr 5 mo)Value: £400,000 exc. VAT · £480,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: South EastEligibility: SME eligible

What it takes to win
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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: 30%
  • Experience and Capacity: 15%
  • Delivery: 10%
  • Commercial: 5%
  • Price: 40%
Published award criteria (5)
  • Technical Quality
  • Experience and Capacity
  • Delivery
  • Commercial
  • Price
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
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Closed
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
28 Sept 2026, 09:12 BST
Last source update
28 Sept 2026, 09:12 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 2 Nov 2026
Authority reference
DLSITT1097
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091247
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Magnets
Delivery area
South East (UKJ14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b1f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified
Electronic submission not allowedLanguage: EN
Submission deadline
28 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Not allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Please email tender submission to:

diamond.ac.uk ↗

and send a hard copy to

Diamond Procurement

Diamond House

Diamond Light Source Ltd

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

Didcot

Oxon

OX11 0DE

UK

Timeline

28 Sept 2026 → 16 Nov 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Tender notice published45 days ago
    28 Sept 2026, 09:12 BST
  2. Submission deadline15 days ago
    28 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Award decision expected by10 days ago
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Today
    13 Nov 2026
  5. Contract startsin 2 days
    16 Nov 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    28 Sept 2026, 09:12 BST
    UK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-COH: 04375679 · GB-PPON: PNGG-3778-PWBM Diamond House, Didcot, South East, OX11 0DEContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Technical specifications tenderTechnical specificationsVisit our web page: https://tenders.diamond.ac.uk Here Suppliers are required to complete a one-off simple registration form. You are then able to login to register an interest against the tender and download the Tender Documents.

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender