UKSBS PR18107 MOONS HR-I Prism

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CLOSING TIME FOR BIDS IS 15th August 2018 14:00 HOURS BST. Scope of requirement: Manufacture and supply of 4-off HR-I PRISMS per drawing supplied. DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE BUYER. To express your interest in this opportunity email expressionOfInterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk. To register on our e-sourcing portal click on https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk and follow the link "Supplier eSourcing registration". Note: Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation "to apply directly to the buyer" as this is unfortunately a system generated error, that is outside of the Contracting Authorities control. MOONS (Multi-Objects Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph) is a new concept for an astronomical spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). It has been selected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in response to a call for proposals for the development of 3rd generation instrumentation. UK Research and Innovation,through its UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC), requires the following items as part of the equipment needed: To the manufacture and supply of 4No. MOONS HR-I Prisms in accordance with drawing entitled 'Prism_HRI_BK7_24jun2018.pdf' The contract will be awarded based on the criteria set out on the sourcing documents. For the full technical specification, please see the following documents 'Prism_HRI_BK7_24jun2018.pdf' which is provided as an attachment within the e-sourcing platform https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sso/jsp/login.jsp