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90035432 - Supply of Double Toroidal Focussing Mirror System(M2) for Beamline K18

Published
Published 27 October 2025
Deadline
Closed 26 November 2025

Overview

Located on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering and innovation. DLS allows researchers from academia and industry to investigate the structure and behaviour of the world around us at the atomic and molecular level. To continue delivering the world-changing science that Diamond enables, the facility is being upgraded to Diamond-II, a co-ordinated programme of development that combines a major machine upgrade with new instruments and complementary improvements to optics, detectors, sample environment and delivery capabilities, and computing, as well as integrated and correlative methods. This will be transformative in speed and spatial resolution and will offer users streamlined access to enhanced instruments for life and physical sciences. The scope of the contract is for the design, supply of material, manufacture, assembly, test, delivery, installation and commissioning of a Double Toroidal Focussing Mirror System for the K18 beamline. The minimum scope of the contract is the design, manufacture, test, and delivery of: • M2 downward deflecting, tangentially bent, double toroidal focusing, monochromatic Xray beam mirror & mechanics. • Motorized elliptical 4-point mechanical bender to adjust tangential curvature of the mirror reflecting surface. • Motorized gravitational sag compensator(s). • Temperature monitoring • Temperature stabilisation if required • Vacuum vessel and associated controls. • Support frame • Interface to beamline services. and includes the following: • Design • Contract Terms and Conditions • Supply and purchasing of materials and components. • Quality Assurance • Manufacture of mirror system • Inspection • Cleaning • Assembly • Vacuum baking • Testing • Packing and Delivery

Key details

Country
United Kingdom
Status
In delivery
Category
Goods
Estimated value
£320,000
Procedure
Open
SME suitable
Yes
Published
27 October 2025
Deadline
Closed
Classification (CPV)
Mirrors

Award outcome

Awarded value
£434,000
Award date
19 January 2026
Contract period
12 January 2026 → 12 July 2027
Winner
  • INSTRUMENT DESIGN TECHNOLOGY LIMITED

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Notice history

Every published notice in this contracting process, newest first.

  1. Contract

    12 February 2026

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  2. Contract

    19 January 2026

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  3. Contract Notice

    27 October 2025

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Contracting authority

  • DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED

    Buyer

    Didcot, United Kingdom

    GB-COH: 04375679

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Awarded: 90035432 - Supply of Double Toroidal Focussing Mirror System(M2) for Beamline K18 — won by INSTRUMENT DESIGN TECHNOLOGY LIMITED — Skim