Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables
A Contract Award Notice
by NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY (NTU)
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Framework (Goods)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- £600K
- Sector
- INDUSTRIAL
- Published
- 09 Jan 2025
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
East Midlands England: Nottingham
1 buyer
- Nottingham Trent University Nottingham
4 suppliers
- Thorlabs Cambridgeshire
- Edmund Optics York
- RS Components Northants
- Pro Lite Technology Bedford
Description
Nottingham Trent University has ongoing requirements for the purchase of optical related equipment components and consumables. The requirement has been split into 10 lots which are listed below. Tenderers may tender for individual lots, or they may tender for all lots as applicable on the framework. The items have been categorised into the following list of lots; Lot 1: Optical elements Lot 2: Optomechanical devices and components Lot 3: Optical tables, breadboards, and accessories Lot 4: Manual and motorised stages, micrometres, actuators, and positioners Lot 5: Test and calibration targets, reticules, and tools Lot 6: Fibre optics, fibre test instruments, and fibre processing tools Lot 7: Instrumentation Lot 8: Light sources Lot 9: General Accessories, Equipment Components and Consumables Lot 10: Future technologies. A detailed scope of each lot can be found in the tender documentation.
Lot Division
| 1 | Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables Optical elements which may be kits including but not limited to; lenses, mirrors, filters, beamsplitters, prisms, diffusors, windows, gratings, crystals and liquid crystal devices, lenses and objectives, cells, isolators, collimators, couplers, modulators, antennas, compensators, polarisers, depolarisers, displacers, and rotators, waveplates and beam expanders and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings. |
| 2 | Optomechanical devices and components Optomechanical devices and components, which may be kits of items or motorised elements and would include accessory bolts and fitting and tools for assembly as required: - including but not limited to posts, supports, rails, mounts, clamps, cages, adaptors and brackets, iris, apertures and pinholes, shelves and platforms, choppers, beam scanners, piezo devices, adaptive optics, filter wheels and mounts (adaptors, clamps, ports, mounts, supports, stands and joints), shutters and stages. |
| 3 | Optical tables, breadboards, and accessories Optical tables, breadboards, and accessories, including but not limited to enclosures, feet, handles, shelving, fixtures, and screens/curtains. |
| 4 | Manual and motorised stages, micrometres, actuators, and positioners Manual and motorised stages, micrometres, actuators and positioners as well as the controllers of these components. Including but not limited to; associated base plates, platforms, brackets and adaptors and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings. |
| 5 | Test and calibration targets, reticules, and tools Test and calibration targets, reticules and tools including but not limited to power meters and beam characterisation instruments and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings. |
| 6 | Fibre optics, fibre test instruments, and fibre processing tools Fibre optics including but not limited to fibres and patch cables, fibre collimators, couplers, splitters, combiners, polarisers, circulators, reflectors, isolators, attenuators, filters and terminators. Fibre test instruments such as spectrum analysers, polarimeters and extinction ratio meters. Fibre processing tools including but not limited to strippers, cleaners, cleavers, splicers, glass processors, recoaters and testers, and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings. |
| 7 | Instrumentation Instrumentation including but not limited to spectrometers, interferometers, amplifiers, spectrum and noise analysers, beam profilers, wavefront sensors and auto correctors, and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings. |
| 8 | Light sources Light sources including but not limited to lasers (diodes and other solid state devices such as fibre etc., HeNe and other gasses, tuneable, pulsed, from Thz or Hz frequency and UV to radio frequency) and laser drivers, phase controllers and power modulators, also diodes, lamps and other broadband sources, and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings. Corresponding laser safety glasses should be offered. |
| 9 | General Accessories, Equipment Components and Consumables General accessories, equipment components and consumables related to optical equipment. |
| 10 | Future technologies Future technologies related to optical equipment components and consumables. Tenderer to indicate what they will offer under this lot in their tender response. |
Award Detail
| 1 | Thorlabs (Cambridgeshire)
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| 2 | Edmund Optics (York)
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| 3 | RS Components (Northants)
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| 4 | Pro Lite Technology (Bedford)
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Award Criteria
| Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) | 10 |
CPV Codes
- 38000000 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- 31000000 - Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
- 31131100 - Actuators
- 31712335 - Optical coupled isolators
- 31712348 - Laser diodes
- 32560000 - Fibre-optic materials
- 32561000 - Fibre-optic connections
- 32562000 - Optical-fibre cables
- 38433000 - Spectrometers
- 38433300 - Spectrum analyser
- 38519400 - Automated microscope stages
- 38519600 - Microscope eyepieces, condensers, collectors, tubes, stages and covers
- 38519650 - Microscope stages
- 38600000 - Optical instruments
- 38623000 - Optical filters
- 38636000 - Specialist optical instruments
- 38636100 - Lasers
Other Information
** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. **
Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-04844c
- FTS 000673-2025