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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

University Of Southampton

Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (BLWT)

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000
Value£651k
Awarded29 Apr 2019
Published10 Sept 2019
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£651ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£703k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University of Southampton is constructing new facilities, and part of this development effort is the update of experimental facilities.

This Invitation to Tender addresses one of the requirements, namely a new Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (BLWT) designed as a flexible test platform for novel aerodynamics and fluid mechanics research work and experimental technique.

The wind tunnel will be installed in a newly constructed building at the University of Southampton's campus.

The new building is known as Building 185.

This procurement aims to identify a Contractor to design, manufacture, deliver, install, test and commission the BLWT in accordance with the requirements and performance criteria detailed within the Invitation to Tender document set.

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This procurement aims to identify a Contractor to design, manufacture, deliver, install, test and commission the BLWT in accordance with the requirements and performance criteria detailed within the Invitation to Tender document set.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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