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
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How to bid
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- Make sure your bid arrives before midday, Wednesday 28 October 2026. Late bids are usually rejected.
Timeline
- 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
33Awards
25Suppliers it has used most
- XDS Oxford Limited5 contracts
- Instrument Design Technology Limited4 contracts
- Kyma S.p.A.3 contracts
- Danfysik2 contracts
- FMB Feinwerk- und Messtechnik GmbH2 contracts
- NCF Engineering Ltd (T/A Ferrositi)2 contracts
- Bestec GmbH1 contract
- Bluescientific Limited1 contract
From notice 091247-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 28 September 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.