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Northumbria University at Newcastle

GB-Newcastle Upon Tyne: T21-0046 Radiation TID Facility

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33111100 38341600 38341000 33111400 33111200 38580000 38341200 33111000 33111300
Value£100k
Awarded31 Jan 2022
Published12 Jan 2022
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£100ktotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

The brief

We require an x-ray irradiation facility capable of providing a total ionising dose to electronics components at a rate between 0.5 and 3 Gy(Si)/s to a total of 1000 Gy(Si).

The x-rays must have sufficient energy to penetrate into exposed electronic components to a depth of a few mm, this means that a minimum energy requirement is 100 keV but higher energies are desirable, subject to safety constraints.

The system must be compliant with UK national standards for safety; Safety of Machinery standard: ISO 13849-1:2015, and the Ionising Radiations Regulations - IRR 2017.

This means that there must be shielding to reduce the radiation to background levels outside of the testing chamber and that there must be a secure interlock system with a safe failure state such that the system will not function with the door open, as well as a keyed initiation system.

This system should be provided with all relevant cooling and control and command systems needed for operation, as well as a dosimeter capable of tracking the dose provided inside the chamber.

The facility will be used in a laboratory installed on the second floor and so must be small enough to transport into that space.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

We require an x-ray irradiation facility capable

We require an x-ray irradiation facility capable of providing a total ionising dose to electronics components at a rate between 0.5 and 3 Gy(Si)/s to a total of 1000 Gy(Si).

02

The x-rays must have sufficient energy

The x-rays must have sufficient energy to penetrate into exposed electronic components to a depth of a few mm, this means that a minimum energy requirement is 100 keV but higher energies are desirable, subject to safety constraints.

03

The system must be compliant with UK

The system must be compliant with UK national standards for safety; Safety of Machinery standard: ISO 13849-1:2015, and the Ionising Radiations Regulations.

04

This means that there must be shielding

This means that there must be shielding to reduce the radiation to background levels outside of the testing chamber and that there must be a secure interlock system with a safe failure state such that the system will not function with the door open, as well as a keyed initiation system.

05

This system should be provided with all

This system should be provided with all relevant cooling and control and command systems needed for operation, as well as a dosimeter capable of tracking the dose provided inside the chamber.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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