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UK Research & Innovation

UKRI-1659 METIS - Integral Field Unit (IFU) Components

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38636000
Value£495k
Awarded7 Mar 2022
Published21 Apr 2022
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£495ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

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 European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, will be the world's largest telescope operating in the visible and infrared wavelength domain.

It is part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), an inter-governmental research organization.

METIS is an imager and spectrometer for the (ELT), operating at wavelengths of 2.7 micron to around 14 micron.

The integral field unit (IFU) is an all reflective image slicing IFU with 28 slices.

It is intended that the optical components of the IFU will be manufactured using single point diamond machining to generate the multiple mirror facets on monolithic components.

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