UKSBS PR17087 - ALPHA Counter Unit

Tender description

***Please NOTE: This tender will close for the receipt of bids on Friday 08 Sept 2017 at 14.00 BST.*** STFC is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation, whose goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people - and more broadly to the world. The Particle Physics Department (PPD) based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory part of STFC are seeking an Alpha counter for the investigation of surface contaminants with extremely high sensitivity for future Dark Matter, Double Beta decay and other ultra-low background detection media. The equipment is to be delivered, installed and commissioned in the STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory - the UK's 1.1km deep underground science facility operating in a working mine (Boulby Mine) in the North East of England. Completion of delivery, installation and commissioning is required by the end of November 2017. The equipment is to be installed into a 1000 grade clean room, clean room protocols must be adhered during installation and commissioning phases. Local experts will be in attendance to guide the installation engineers. ***DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE BUYER*** Note : Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation "to apply directly to the buyer" as this unfortunately a system generated error, that is outside of the Contracting Authority's control "