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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Satellite Applications Catapult

RFP-FY-22-20 Robot System for In-Orbit Service & Manufacturing Simulation

Industrial MachineryCPV 42000000 42990000 42997300
Value£155k
Awarded19 Nov 2021
Published7 Jan 2022
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£155ktotal contract value
median £100k
this tender£0£1.3m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Industrial Machinery band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 5,734 valued Industrial Machinery tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Catapult requires a two-robot solution that enables testing and validation of capabilities for IOSM functions.

The IOSM facility will sit within a space of 21.6m (length) x 12.3m (wide) x 8m (height) within the Westcott Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre.

Additional control rooms and laboratories will be available for preparation, experimentation and other activities.

The system will provide a nationally unique facility with two industrial type robots (one of which is mounted on a travel track) capable of representing equivalent motion in all axis and capable of supporting spacecraft (or scale representations) up to 50kg each.

Key requirements

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The system will provide a nationally unique

The system will provide a nationally unique facility with two industrial type robots (one of which is mounted on a travel track) capable of representing equivalent motion in all axis and capable of supporting spacecraft (or scale representations) up to 50kg each.

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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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