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title: "Supply, Delivery, Installation & Commissioning of a Wafer Thinning Turnkey ITT"
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# Supply, Delivery, Installation & Commissioning of a Wafer Thinning Turnkey ITT

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-delivery-installation-commissioning-of-a-wafer-thinning-turnkey-itt-ocds-h6vhtk-0518c2). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** University of Strathclyde: "Supply, Delivery, Installation & Commissioning of a Wafer Thinning Turnkey ITT". Published status: complete. Published Value: £2,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 20 Jun 2025, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [University of Strathclyde](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/university-of-strathclyde-GB-FTS-135284)
- **Published Value:** £2,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 20 June 2025 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Electronic equipment, Semiconductors
- **Delivery Location:** UKM82
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,005,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0518c2`

## Before you bid
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- **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/supply-delivery-installation-commissioning-of-a-wafer-thinning-turnkey-itt-ocds-h6vhtk-0518c2#tl-md)

## Submission
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- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-delivery-installation-commissioning-of-a-wafer-thinning-turnkey-itt-ocds-h6vhtk-0518c2#participate

## Description
The University of Strathclyde has a requirement for a semiconductor wafer thinning capability suitable to receive wafers of various sizes and materials and grind, stress relieve and clean them before onward processing in a power semiconductor packaging line.
The line will allow research to be performed on a variety of materials and processes involved in the manufacture of semiconductor products.  This is in support of a publicly funded project that will see the creation of an advanced, scaleup packaging facility for power electronics within the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).  The overall scale up manufacturing facility is to be housed at an NMIS site, this sub-section of the facility will be housed in an ISO-7 (class 10,000) clean room environment. The equipment within the facility will comprise the latest technology in their respective fields. It will be utilized in a range of projects within the Power Electronics industry and will be made available to both academic and industrial partners across the whole of the United Kingdom, including other catapult centres.  As part of this project, NMIS has a requirement to procure a turnkey capability in wafer thinning, polishing, cleaning - which includes water management ancillary systems.
High-efficiency grinder/polisher for wafers
A Deionised Water Recycling Unit
Automatic Cleaning System for wafers

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 31710000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** The University of Strathclyde has a requirement for a semiconductor wafer thinning capability suitable to receive wafers of various sizes and materials and grind, stress relieve and clean them before onward processing in a power semiconductor packagi...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 048485-2025-UOS-35651-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Disco Hi-Tech UK Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-145731`
  - Value: £1,005,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 048485-2025-UOS-35651-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,005,000
  - Signed Date: 29/07/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F048485-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-08-13T14:38:49.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T09:42:47.601Z
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