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9004200 - Supply of M1 and M2 Collimating Mirror System for I20

Diamond Light Source Limited · Central government

In brief

Diamond Light Source Limited awarded laboratory equipment work to Instrument Design Technology Limited on 27 March 2026.

The notice gives a value of £500,000 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 27 months, starting 28 March 2026.

The buyer says it is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.

Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.

What the notice says

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, manufacture, assembly, delivery and installation of a pair of cooled, high power mirror systems (M1 and M2) for the I20-Scanning beamline to the performance detailed in the specification document.

Who won

WinnerValueDates
Instrument Design Technology Limited (SME)
2 bids received
£599,000
Awarded 17 March 2026
27 March 2026 to 26 July 2028

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Tender notice · UK4, notice 010766-2026
  2. Contract award notice · UK6, notice 024003-2026
  3. Contract details notice · UK7, notice 031628-2026

Last time this was bought

9003532 - Supply of KB Mirror System for K21

Awarded
29 January 2026
Value
£465,000
Bids
5
Contract ends
30 July 2027

Matched on Diamond Light Source Limited, the type of work and the title. Check the notice to be sure.

About the buyer

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From notice 010766-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 6 February 2026, last updated 7 April 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.