In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£1,200,000
9004199 - Supply of Booster Kicker Magnets for Diamond-II
- Published
- Published 28 January 2026
- Deadline
- Closed 27 February 2026
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 coordinated 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 this contract is to carry out the detailed design, manufacture, quality control, testing and delivery of 4 in-vacuum kicker magnets and power supplies. The main parts of all four magnets will be identical with individual matching pieces for each magnet. One magnet is used for injection and requires a rapid return to zero field, the other three are used for extraction and require a rapid rise to nominal field which is also stronger than in
the injection magnet. It is envisaged that these differences should be achieved in the power supplies i.e. there will be two different power supply types, which should use as many common components as possible.
The DLS design envisages a common magnet structure and main vessel for all 4 kickers with bespoke taper/matching pieces for each location. Use of a common power supply design tuned for the two different requirements is desired but different designs would be considered with appropriate justification.
Key details
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Status
- In delivery
- Category
- Goods
- Estimated value
- £1,200,000
- Procedure
- Open
- SME suitable
- Yes
- Published
- 28 January 2026
- Deadline
- Closed
Magnets
Award outcome
- Awarded value
- €1,345,700
- Award date
- 13 March 2026
- Contract period
- 29 March 2026 → 30 October 2027
- Danfysik
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Notice history
Every published notice in this contracting process, newest first.
Contract
8 April 2026
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13 March 2026
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28 January 2026
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Contracting authority
DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED
BuyerDidcot, United Kingdom
GB-COH: 04375679
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