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UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

1864/JN - Field Assisted (FAST) Sintering System

Industrial MachineryCPV 42636000 42900000
Value£1.1m
Awarded2 Feb 2018
Published12 Apr 2018
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.1mtotal contract value
median £100k
this tender£0£1.3m

This is a large award for Industrial Machinery — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,734 valued Industrial Machinery tenders in our corpus.

The brief

We seek to purchase a Field Assisted (FAST) sintering system (otherwise known as Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS)) for the consolidation of powders.

Typical material types to be processed in the SPS include ceramics, metals, hard alloys, nanomaterials, functionally graded materials etc.

This is an open EU procurement procedure.

The ITT can only be downloaded by registering and expressing your interest on the University's e-tendering system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield.

Completed tenders must be returned through the same e-tendering system.

If you have any questions or comments in relation to this tender they must only be submitted via the Intend System, this can be accessed at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield

Key requirements

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Completed tenders must be returned through

Completed tenders must be returned through the same e-tendering system.

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If you have any questions or comments

If you have any questions or comments in relation to this tender they must only be submitted via the Intend System, this can be accessed at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield.

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