Magnets Tenders and Contracts

Public bodies buy superconducting magnets and coils for particle accelerators and fusion facilities, permanent magnet arrays for synchrotron light sources, and the power supplies that run them. Consumer and promotional magnets, magnetic locks and complete medical scanners are separate categories.

Stotles brings together magnets tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Magnet systems are usually one-off specialist contracts built to a facility's design and published by national research bodies on Find a Tender.

Magnet suppliers usually work to the buyer's engineering specification and quality standards, and defence or nuclear work may require security-cleared staff. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Most magnet notices are one-off specialist contracts rather than open frameworks, since each magnet system is built to match a specific facility's experiment or beamline. New contracts appear as research programmes such as STEP and the Diamond-II upgrade progress through their build phases.

The regular buyers are national research bodies and universities: UK Research and Innovation's facilities including the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Diamond Light Source, UK Atomic Energy Authority and UK Industrial Fusion Solutions on the STEP fusion energy programme, and university physics departments running low-temperature and materials-science experiments.

Read equipment replacement plans, asset registers, framework renewal dates and expiry dates for existing supply contracts, which show magnets work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Magnets have no dedicated CPV code. Magnet power supplies have carried 31682000 (Electricity supplies), and magnet components are usually classified under scientific or laboratory equipment codes.