Open tender · Notice 091247-2026
Main Septum Magnets for Diamond-II
- Value
- £400k
- Closes
- 28 Oct 2026 (13 days)
- Where
- South East
- Lots
- 1
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes, says the buyer
- Contract
- 16 Nov 2026 – 10 Apr 2028
In plain English
Diamond Light Source, based at Harwell in Oxfordshire, needs a specialist supplier to design, manufacture, test and deliver two out-of-vacuum main DC/PM septum magnets with integrated vacuum vessels and support stands, plus some spares, for its Diamond-II machine upgrade. The contract runs from 16 November 2026 to 10 April 2028 and is worth around £400,000.
Good fit for: Specialist engineering firms with experience designing and manufacturing precision magnets for particle accelerators or similar scientific facilities.
- Highly specialised technical requirement - detailed design, manufacture and testing of septum magnets to precise specifications
- Two magnets must be physically identical but installed with inverted fields, requiring rotationally symmetric support frames
- Full specification document referenced but not detailed here - check it for further technical and compliance requirements
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What the buyer says
Located on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering and innovation. DLS allows researchers from academia and industry to investigate the structure and behaviour of the world around us at the atomic and molecular level. To continue delivering the world-changing science that Diamond enables, the facility is being upgraded to Diamond-II, a co-ordinated programme of development that combines a major machine upgrade with new instruments and complementary improvements to optics, detectors, sample environment and delivery capabilities, and computing, as well as integrated and correlative methods. This will be transformative in speed and spatial resolution and will offer users streamlined access to enhanced instruments for life and physical sciences. The scope of this contract is to carry out the detailed design, manufacture, quality control, testing and delivery of two out-of-vacuum main DC/PM septum magnets, with integrated vacuum vessels, on support stands, as well as some spares. The two septum magnets are physically identical but will be installed with input and output ends inverted for booster extraction bend to the left, and storage ring injection bend to the right. This means that the magnet fields are also inverted, and also that the support frame should be rotationally symmetric so that the services connections are on the outside (bending channel side of the support frame) in each case. See specification for further details.
Procedure: Open procedure (Open: anyone can bid, in one stage). Published 28 Sep 2026.
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