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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

SBRI Challenge - Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE)

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71350000
Value£82k
Awarded11 Oct 2015
Published24 Feb 2016
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£82ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Engineering & Architecture band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Develop a technique to reduce inspection maintenance costs by deploying fully optimised guided wave inspections to quickly and accurately assess the condition of difficult to access fuel and hydraulic seals.

1) A reliable and repeatable operating procedure to assess seal integrity; 2) A method for accurately and quickly identifying mis-alignment and inadequate seal coupling; 3) An approach that minimises system disturbance and reduces prolonged inspection periods; 4) Increase availability of aircraft due to reduced, yet safe, maintenance programme.

The work is to be undertaken in accordance with the SBRI application 61125-446206 submitted and held by Innovate UK for the Non-Destructive Evaluation programme.

Key deliverables are: 1.

Definition of pipeline geometries and seal types that represent a range of common aircraft fuel and hydraulic networks (19/11/2015) 2.

Development of a functional three-dimensional Guided Wave Finite Element model (27/11/2015) 3.

Development of a functional fuel and hydraulic seal model (22/01/2016) 4.

Validation and testing complete with demonstration of a fully working prototype (26/02/2016) 5.

Determination of a Guided Wave optimisation function (18/03/2016) 6.

Demonstration of above and delivery of Phase 1 final report (22/04/2016)

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Validation and testing complete with demonstration

Validation and testing complete with demonstration of a fully working prototype (26/02/2016).

02

Demonstration of above and delivery of Phase

Demonstration of above and delivery of Phase 1 final report (22/04/2016).

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Source & provenance
OCID
c6089b81-76b1-4f8d-8248-6ea7c81995a5
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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DTEC/181/03
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