AwardedAwarded 10 March 2026

9003983 - Supply of the APPLE-II Undulator for I08

Diamond Light Source Limited · Central government

In brief

Diamond Light Source Limited awarded laboratory equipment work to Kyma S.p.A. on 10 March 2026.

The notice gives a value of £1,500,000 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 16 months, starting 12 February 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 and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering and innovation. Diamond 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 to the design, manufacture, test and delivery to DLS of one complete eight axes out-of-vacuum APPLE-II undulator, subject to the performance specification, together with all the necessary drawings and documentation to ensure the insertion device (ID) can be operated and maintained without supplier support if necessary

Who won

WinnerValueDates
Kyma S.p.A. (SME)
1 bid received
£1,130,000
Awarded 25 February 2026
10 March 2026 to 6 September 2027

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

Timeline

  1. Tender notice · UK4, notice 079810-2025
  2. Contract award notice · UK6, notice 016985-2026
  3. Contract details notice · UK7, notice 024223-2026

Last time this was bought

9003984 - Supply of the APPLE-II Undulators for I06 and I10

Won by
Kyma S.p.A.
Awarded
10 March 2026
Value
£1,430,000
Bids
1
Contract ends
10 November 2027

Matched on Diamond Light Source Limited, the type of work and the title; it may be a related contract rather than the same one. Check the notice to be sure.

About the buyer

Procurements

33

Awards

25

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From notice 079810-2025 on Find a Tender, first published 4 December 2025, last updated 17 March 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.