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DLSITT1097 - Main Septum Magnets for Diamond-II

Diamond Light Source Limited · Central government

In brief

Diamond Light Source Limited is looking for suppliers for this contract (South East).

The estimated value is £400,000 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 17 months, starting 16 November 2026.

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

Bids close at midday, Wednesday 28 October 2026.

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Can I win this?

Key dates

Bids by
midday, Wednesday 28 October 2026

How bids are scored

Technical Quality 30% · Experience and Capacity 15% · Delivery 10% · Commercial 5% · Price 40%

Quality matters most. You can win without being the cheapest.

Competition

Typical: a median of 3 bids per contract for this buyer (from 22 awards in the last 12 months).

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…Read the full description
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 this contract is to carry out the detailed design, manufacture, quality control, testing and delivery of two out-of-vacuum main DC/PM septum magnets, with integrated vacuum vessels, on support stands, as well as some spares. The two septum magnets are physically identical but will be installed with input and output ends inverted for booster extraction bend to the left, and storage ring injection bend to the right. This means that the magnet fields are also inverted, and also that the support frame should be rotationally symmetric so that the services connections are on the outside (bending channel side of the support frame) in each case. See specification for further details.

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  3. Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.
  4. Make sure your bid arrives before midday, Wednesday 28 October 2026. Late bids are usually rejected.

Timeline

  1. Tender notice · UK4, notice 091247-2026

Last time this was bought

9003706 - Supply of Thin Septum Magnets

Won by
Danfysik
Awarded
10 February 2026
Value
€1,248,700
Bids
3
Contract ends
30 October 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

Suppliers it has used most

From notice 091247-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 28 September 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.