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Diamond Light Source Ltd

Manufacture & Supply of Analyser Crystals for F2 XES to be used in the XFEL Hub's von Hamos Spectrometer

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000
Value£138k
Awarded2 Aug 2022
Published13 Sept 2022
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£138ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This sits in the upper-middle of the Laboratory & Precision Equipment band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

DLS are looking for the Manufacture and Supply of the following set of cylindrically bent germanium analyser crystals for the 16-analyser von Hamos spectrometer for X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) that the XFEL Hub is designing for installation at the Diamond Light Source beamlines: - 16 x Ge (620) crystals to use this reflection for the Fe Kβ emission line.

Each analyser crystal should be mounted on an aluminium block with tapped holes on the underside as described in Section 3.

The analyser crystals will be mounted into a separate hold in air.

This holder is not part of the scope of this project and will be designed and built by DLS.

To apply visit our website which requires suppliers to complete a one-off simple registration form, which will generate a unique password for your account.

You are then able to login to register your interest against the Tender and download the tender documents.

Below is a link to the site: https://tenders.diamond.ac.uk/Home.aspx

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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DLS are looking for the Manufacture

DLS are looking for the Manufacture and Supply of the following set of cylindrically bent germanium analyser crystals for the 16-analyser von Hamos spectrometer for X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) that the XFEL Hub is designing for installation at the Diamond Light Source beamlines:.

02

Each analyser crystal should be mounted on

Each analyser crystal should be mounted on an aluminium block with tapped holes on the underside as described in Section 3.

03

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