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Diamond Light Source Ltd

Multilayer Deposition System

Industrial MachineryCPV 42000000
Value£1.3m
Awarded22 Oct 2021
Published7 Dec 2021
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1.3mtotal contract value
median £100k
this tender£0£1.4m

This is a large award for Industrial Machinery — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,734 valued Industrial Machinery tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The multilayer deposition system (MDS) is a thin film deposition system using DC magnetron sputter deposition.

The system shall be custom designed and built based on our functional specifications as outlined in the specification.

The MDS shall have capabilities of depositing highly uniform (lateral and depth) coatings on X-ray optics substrates.

Since the multilayers to be deposited require an error-free layered structure, particular attention shall be paid to the stability and repeatability of the process.

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at https://tenders.diamond.ac.uk/Home.aspx

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The system shall be custom designed

The system shall be custom designed and built based on our functional specifications as outlined in the specification.

02

The MDS shall have capabilities of depositing

The MDS shall have capabilities of depositing highly uniform (lateral and depth) coatings on X-ray optics substrates.

03

Since the multilayers to be deposited require

Since the multilayers to be deposited require an error-free layered structure, particular attention shall be paid to the stability and repeatability of the process.

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