RFI - RF Experimental Laboratory Capabilities in the UK

Tender description

Dstl's Counter Terrorism and Security (CTS) Division (hereinafter referred to as the Authority), is investigating the availability of Radio Frequency (RF) Experimental Laboratory Capabilities within the United Kingdom. These RF facilities are critical to ensuring the Authority is able to deliver customer requirements in a safe and secure way by: 1) ensuring experiments can be conducted without impedance from outside signals; 2) protect the outside world from interference that may be caused by our experiments; 3) allow the Authority to conduct experiments in a manner compliant with UK legislation (Control of EM Fields at Work Regulations 2016, Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2005); 4) provide a low passive intermodulation and low metal environment within the chamber; 5) provide a PC-controllable, high-resolution turntable within the chamber; 6) provide at least a 3 m x 3 m working area inside the chamber; 7) allow RF sensing measurements from 500 MHz to 100 GHz; 8) provide space, power and network connection outside the chamber for control computers, oscilloscopes and network analysers; 9) provide up to 5 work benches with soldering stations for preparing experiments; 10) be available within 1 weeks’ notice and used for durations of between several days per week, to several weeks at a time; 11) allow experimentation with targets classified up to Secret; 12) allow unescorted access. The Authority is issuing this Request for Information to understand the capacity and capabilities of existing RF Experimental Lab Capabilities within the United Kingdom, across both Industry and Academia, in particular whether your capabilities/capacity meet the requirements set out above. Further details are provided in the RFI Notice as published on Contracts Finder.