Notice Information
Notice Title
Ultra-High Temperature Materials Testing Equipment
Notice Description
UKAEA wishes to engage with potential lead contractors, SME's, manufacturers for the procurement and supply of Ultra-High Temperature Materials Testing equipment for the UKAEA. The goal of this procurement activity is to establish UK-unique Ultra-High Temperature Materials Testing equipment (UHT-MaT) for complex, representative mechanical testing under vacuum at ultra-high temperatures, 2,500+ degC for the following material families of interest: refractory metallic alloys, ceramics, and ceramic-matrix composites. UHT-MaT will be housed at UKAEA's premises in Culham, Oxfordshire, UK by October 2027 at the latest. After the engagement exercise, and dependent on securing funding, UKAEA intend to issue an Invitation to Tender through the EU Supply and Find a Tender portals (replacement to Tenders Electronic Daily) to procure services for design and provision of equipment through competitively tendered contracts.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The following main pieces of equipment are requested: * Mechanical load frame(s) (up to 3 frames) for static, quasi static and cyclic mechanical loading. The load frame and/or load frames will have the mechanical infrastructure, control systems, and software capable of supporting numerous standard mechanical tests, specifically: tensile, compression, low cycle fatigue, ratchetting, creep, creep fatigue, crack growth in fatigue , and crack growth in creep. The load frame(s) should include several load cells with a maximum capacity of 100 kN (unless justified otherwise), fixtures and gripping solutions for standard geometry specimens of the material families of interest at ultra high temperatures: refractory metallic alloys, ceramics, and ceramic-matrix composites. The load string must be capable of operating up to the required temperature for at least one test, with the understanding that fixtures are consumable when operating at these temperatures. The load frame(s) should have appropriate test control systems (e.g. to control for strain on the sample at temperature) and sufficient working space to permit the insertion of vacuum and heating systems. * A vacuum system compatible with mechanical testing at ultra high temperature. If there are multiple load frames then the single vacuum system (or the load frames) must be mobile to allow the vacuum system to be used by different load frames at different times. There must be ports for test control, optical ports for the data-rich diagnostics and their calibration and additional ports to allow future flexibility in diagnostics. * A gas introduction system to allow alternative atmosphere testing. * A heating system to allow sample test temperatures up to 2,500 degC and above for the material families of interest. The heating system must not limit the line of sight for the data-rich diagnostics. * An appropriate cooling system to protect the load cell and fixtures, where required. * A high spatial resolution IR camera and/or bolometer for spatially-resolved temperature measurement.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-041a32
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/033837-2023
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
31 - Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
34 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
39 - Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products
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- CPV Codes
31720000 - Electromechanical equipment
34950000 - Loadbearing equipment
39715200 - Heating equipment
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £1,300,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 15 Nov 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 30 Aug 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planned
- Lots Status
- Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY
- Contact Name
- Charlotte Byrne
- Contact Email
- charlotte.byrne@ukaea.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- ABINGDON
- Postcode
- OX14 3DB
- Post Town
- Oxford
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC
- Delivery Location
- TLJ South East (England), TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC
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- Local Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Electoral Ward
- Sandford & the Wittenhams
- Westminster Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
Further Information
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