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University of Bristol

Design and Manufacture of a Tape Winding Capability

Industrial MachineryCPV 42000000
Value£314k
Awarded20 Oct 2022
Published22 Feb 2023
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£314ktotal 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

The NCC is an independent, open-access national centre that delivers world-class innovation in the design and manufacture of composites and facilitates their widespread industrial exploitation.

The National Composites Centre (NCC) intends to procure automated tape winding capability for fully bonded pipes manufacturing.

Such equipment must be able to process unidirectional thermoplastic tapes via in-situ consolidation process to manufacture pipe prototypes with inner diameters in the order of 5cm to 20cm and lengths up to 2 meters.

The acquired capability will extend the current state of the art, which is of value and relevance to both industrial stakeholders and overall, UK industrial output.

The capability shall be specified, procured and commissioned to ensure suitability for industrial research and development programs as well as supporting maturation of emerging manufacturing technologies from academia toward industrial application.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Such equipment must be able to process

Such equipment must be able to process unidirectional thermoplastic tapes via in-situ consolidation process to manufacture pipe prototypes with inner diameters in the order of 5cm to 20cm and lengths up to 2 meters.

02

The capability shall be specified, procured

The capability shall be specified, procured and commissioned to ensure suitability for industrial research and development programs as well as supporting maturation of emerging manufacturing technologies from academia toward industrial application.

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