Official UK procurement notice
Wafer Dicing Saw and Post Wafer Cleaning
Authority: University of Southampton (Charity / VCSE)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University of Southampton seeks to acquire a complete dicing system for the University's optical and semiconductor materials processing capabilities for a number of high-impact projects in the major engineering themes of Quantum Technologies, Photonics and Advanced Manufacturing.
This system is a replacement for the current dicing saw for Building 53 back-end of line cleanroom facility and an upgrade to meet the demands of current projects and technologies. Dicing is a fundamental part of the cleanroom and underpins a significant number of ongoing and future grants. The acquisition of this system will enable university researchers to machine surfaces and micron sized ridge structures with nanoscale surface roughness and low amounts of topside chipping in optical and semiconductor materials.
This dicing machine will allow the fabrication of new devices that will tackle fundamental research problems in quantum light-matter interactions, quantum sensors, and telecommunications.
CPV: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1CancelledPublished value£205,000
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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).
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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).
- Price
- Economic & financial standing
To support the financial assessment, the University will obtain a Business Risk Report for all Tenderers and every organisation that is being relied on to meet this procurement, using an independent company called Creditsafe.
The University reserves the right to exclude a Tenderer or request provision of further assurances such as a parent company guarantee or a bank guarantee where a Tenderer's Business Risk Score is: "Moderate Risk"; "High Risk"; "Very High Risk" or "Not Rated", based on the rating provided by Creditsafe.
Where a Business Risk score from our external system is not available, then an alternative method of assessing financial standing will be used. This method is detailed with the Invitation to Tender document set.
Minimum: Tenderers are advised that a requirement of this procurement is to have in place, or commit to obtain prior to commencement of the Contract, the following minimum insurance levels: Public Liability - £10 million Product Liability - £10 million Employer's Liability - £10 million P… - Technical & professional ability
Tenderers attention is drawn to the MANDATORY requirements of the award criteria:
- Grounds for mandatory exclusion
- Grounds for discretionary exclusion
- Mandatory Technical Requirements
- Economic & Financial Standing
- Insurance
- Compliance with equality legislation
- Health & Safety
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 27 Nov 2023, 14:22 GMT
- Last source update
- 15 Dec 2023, 08:38 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 10 Jan 2024 – …
- Authority reference
2023UoS-0685- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-036879- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-041d04Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: The University of Southampton has taken the decision to withdraw this Invitation to Tender to fully consider the current specification. The University intends to fully review the specification and will look at all available routes to market once the new specification has been finalised.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 10 Jan 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 10 Jan 2024, 12:01 GMT
Timeline
15 Dec 2023 → 10 Jan 2024 · 3 dates- Notice published15 Dec 2023, 08:38 GMT
- Submission deadline10 Jan 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened10 Jan 2024, 12:01 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to cancelled15 Dec 2023, 08:38 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.