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# UKRI-1659 METIS - Integral Field Unit (IFU) Components

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/ukri-1659-metis-integral-field-unit-ifu-components-ocds-h6vhtk-02fbd6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** UK Research and Innovation: "UKRI-1659 METIS - Integral Field Unit (IFU) Components". Published status: complete. Published Value: £500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 25 Jan 2022, 11:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [UK Research and Innovation](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/uk-research-and-innovation-gov-pb1221)
- **Published Value:** £500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 25 January 2022 at 11:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Specialist optical instruments
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £495,113 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02fbd6`

## 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.
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- **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/ukri-1659-metis-integral-field-unit-ifu-components-ocds-h6vhtk-02fbd6#tl-md)

## Description
The European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, will be the world’s largest telescope operating in the visible and infrared wavelength domain. It is part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), an inter-governmental research organization.
METIS is an imager and spectrometer for the (ELT), operating at wavelengths of 2.7 micron to around 14 micron.
The integral field unit (IFU) is an all reflective image slicing IFU with 28 slices. It is intended that the optical components of the IFU will be manufactured using single point diamond machining to generate the multiple mirror facets on monolithic components.

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

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £500,000
- **Description:** The IFU reformats the two dimensional field of view to produce the input slit for the spectrometer. The 28 slice images that make up this slit will be formatted to fit the detector format described above with a gap in the middle of the slit correspon...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 010344-2022-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **University of Durham**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-50569`
  - Value: £495,113 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 010344-2022-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £495,113
  - Signed Date: 07/03/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F010344-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-04-21T09:05:05.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T02:06:10.909Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02fbd6